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Há 2 dias · The process is two-way; on the one hand, modern insights repeatedly give an extra dimension to our understanding of Greek thought; on the other, Greek ideas retain the power directly to shape, or at any rate to sharpen, contemporary reflections – and not least in the sphere of ethics (for two recent examples, albeit of somewhat different kinds, see Bernard Williams’s Ethics and the Limits ...
Há 3 dias · Aristotle considered ethics to be a practical rather than theoretical study, i.e., one aimed at becoming good and doing good rather than knowing for its own sake. He wrote several treatises on ethics, most notably including the Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle taught that virtue has to do with the proper function (ergon) of a thing.
Há 1 dia · Both the Platonic Academy and the Aristotelian Lyceum continued on as schools with a rich institutional life and vast literary output long past the deaths on their founders. Unfortunately, most of the writings of the scholarchs and other notable members of those schools in their early generations were lost.
Há 3 dias · Aristotelian civic virtues and ethical virtues are compatible and constitute different but intertwined components in moral development Footnote 1 Aristotle reveals in the Politics that the human being is by nature a political animal (Aristotle, Citation 1995 , p. 1253a 7); this sets human beings in a social and political context.
Há 2 dias · On another hand, speaking of “biologisation of physics”, may also have a certain pertinence, with regard to the fact that, through the same mathematisation, we come to discover at the heart of mathematical physics the pertinence of the use of methods typical of Aristotelian science such as, for example, the one of classification—if we consider for, example, the importance of classifying ...
Há 3 dias · Review by. Preview. This is a work in four parts with 14 chapters, most of them sectioned, and the usual front matter. The introduction explains that, “while the book focuses especially on how Plato writes, it asks also when he wrote…and why he wrote what he did in the way he did when he wrote it (2),” and, later on, the what is added (184).
Há 2 dias · Indeed, as religious ritual strives to re-present a deity, which is at least an ethical ideal, art endeavors to convey an intimation of the aesthetic ideal, which is at least a product of cultural consensus. For Duchamp, individual expression of the artist is paramount over re-presentation.
