... in which we construct for ourselves our moral values, our understanding of ourselves, and the purposes that make sense of our lives. I would add Aristotle to the list, but for White it is Plato all the way, with a focus on the Phaedrus. We get to Plato by reflecting...

...Jill Kraye Aeneas of Gaza , Theophrastus , trans. Dillon John and Russell Donald , with Zacharias of Mytilene , Ammonius , trans. Gertz Sebastian , “Ancient Commentators on Aristotle,” vol. 99 ( London : Bristol Classical Press , 2012 ), 181 pp. © 2016...

...Oren Harman Leroi Armand Marie , The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science . ( New York : Viking , 2014 ), 501 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...Guido Giglioni Martin Craig , Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2014 ), 262 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Albert R. Jonsen; Jeffrey M. Perl Dunne Joseph , Back to the Rough Ground: “Phronesis” and “Techne” in Modern Philosophy and in Aristotle ( Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 1993 ), 492 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

..., rudimentary structure; together with fellow cephalopoda and mollusks, it is even regarded as behaving “contrary to nature.” The moral that emerges from following this path is that Aristotle may be expressing here a deep conflict between two different models equally present in his work, though...

...Paul Demont Abstract In consonance with the view of Aristotle in book 4 of the Politics , Montesquieu wrote that “selection by lot is in the nature of democracy; election by choice is in the nature of aristocracy.” Although the drawing of lots was a marker of classical Athenian democracy, Socrates...

... was the transition toward focus on the individual fostered by the Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics. The suddenness and irruptive nature of this transition cannot be satisfactorily understood as a reflection of political changes alone, but its deeper roots are obscured by the dominance of Plato, Aristotle, and others...

... (Theophrastus was Aristotle’s student) and geometry in the Euclidean mode have in common is that when their vocabularies are applied to characterization, they delimit characters in terms of established categories—whether of ideal shapes or statistically probable types—while discounting whatever features may...

... produce, as Aristotle said, oligarchy rather than democracy, we should rethink majority rule and experiment with sortition as a counterpolitical means of self‐government. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 antipolitics sortition György Konrád...

... then moves to connections among aesthetic experience, political disengagement, inactivity, and contemplation explored by Wilde, Miguel de Molinos, Aristotle, Hannah Arendt, Walter Pater, Arthur Schopenhauer, Johann Winckelmann, and others. Having described the influence of nineteenth-century science...

..., Susan Gubar, Isabel Colegate INTRODUCTION: UNSETTLING OTHERS Aristotle’s doctrinal statements are sometimes followed by remarks implying that those who disagree with him are unintelligent. But his doctrine that humans are naturally social (“man...

... modern theorists have begun to rediscover, emotions depend essentially on judg as and clear makes Aristotle were as not reason; toopposed simplyGreeks, the for Emotions, out. carried were acts such which with passion the inspired also it violence; the excused only not Mantineans...

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..., at best, correspond to the (spurious) class of pseudo-rational ways of ending an argument. No Protarchus, Aristotle famously remarked that these are instead sort of rational ways of settling disputes. “Persuasion,” he held in the Rhetoric, “is a sort of demonstration...

... himself, raised a Newtonian, required to reach [the concepts] of Aristotelian natural philosophy : As I was reading him, Aristotle appeared not only ignorant of mechan- ics, but a dreadfully bad physical scientist as well. About motion, in particular, his writings seemed to me full of egregious errors...

... was wrong, then as now; wepresent our know from better false, noware that what things said Aristotle if that own, our in true is Aristotle’s in time age whattofrom age, that true was isunchanging truth that andProtagoras.” that the great philosophers of Antiquity were not Plato...

... to lead Platonists to mythological and sometimes mystical solutions. Aristotle, on the other hand, was not faced with the problem of bridging it, as he found one world quite sufficient. 19 Signs were, for Aristotle, straightforward inferential tools point- ing to empirically verifiable realities.20...

... Plato and Aristotle were involved. As Alfred North Whitehead wrote, “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” If so, then Russian thought needs to be understood as an important part of the Western...