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Aristotle came to study, among many others--
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Aristotle being but the most famous.
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Plato was the founder of this school.
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This, in turn, spawned other philosophical schools
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throughout the Greek world and later, the Roman world.
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With the demise of Rome, in the early Christian centuries,
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these philosophical academies, these philosophical schools,
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were absorbed into the medieval monasteries.
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These, in turn, became the basis of the first European universities
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in places like Bologna, Paris, Oxford.
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These were, in turn, later transplanted to the New World
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and established in towns like Cambridge and, of course, New Haven.