The study or practice of esoteric philosophical teachings transmitted orally to initiated students.
From 'acroamatic' + '-ics' (suffix forming academic disciplines), treating the tradition of secret philosophical instruction as a field of knowledge or practice.
If 'logic' is the study of reasoning and 'ethics' is the study of morality, then 'acroamatics' is the study of... the study itself—how knowledge was shared in closed circles, a meta-philosophical discipline.
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