Just read an article about the founders of YouTube. It described them as young, creative, and peripatetic. That word has the sense for me of someone who wanders, who moves about. To get more exactitude, I looked it up — on the world’s dictionary, Google, of course.
Turns out it does have the common meaning of walking about, of being itinerant. But it also carries a meaning related to Aristotle. Using Peripatetic (with the initial capitalization) as a descriptor means related to Aristotle or to the Aristotelian school of philosophy. All this because Aristotle taught while walking around the Lyceum in Athens.
You can see Aristotle walking and teaching in the The School of Athens, painted by Raphael in 1511. He’s in the center, stepping foward, with hand extended, in the blue robe, carrying his Nicomachean Ethics
