ECLECTICS
\ɪklˈɛktɪks], \ɪklˈɛktɪks], \ɪ_k_l_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_k_s]\
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By William R. Warner
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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[Gr., picking out.] Properly, any who borrow from other systems of thought to complete their own. In this sense Plato and Aristotle, and perhaps all thinkers, are eclectics. But the name was specially applied in the second century to the New Platonists of Alexandria.
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See Neoplatonism.
By Henry Percy Smith
