A History of Western Philosophy
exist without this or that football-player. And granted that a person can exist without playing football, he nevertheless cannot ...
"essence" in connection with Aristotle's logic. For the present I will merely observe that it seems to me a muddle-headed action ...
of matter, and that this unity is usually, if not always, teleological. But "form" turns out to be much more than this, and the ...
sphericity, which is substantial and particular, an instance of the universal "sphericity," but not identical with it. I do not ...
believed to undergo no change except motion), the third includes the rational soul in man, and also God. The main argument for G ...
ern mind, it would seem that the cause of a change must be a previous change, and that, if the universe were ever wholly static, ...
extreme were called Epicureans, and whom Dante found in hell. In fact, Aristotle's doctrine is complex, and easily lends itself ...
To understand Aristotle's doctrine of the soul. we must remember that the soul is the "form" of the body, and that spatial shape ...
much more does it in power and worth surpass everything" (1177b). It seems, from these passages, that individuality--what distin ...
countenance such unorthodox theories as are to be found in the Republic concerning property and the family. Those who neither fa ...
meanness; proper pride, between vanity and humility; ready wit, between buffoonery and boorishness; modesty, between bashfulness ...
befit a woman he hands over to her" (1160b). He should not rule in her province; still less should she rule in his, as sometimes ...
is unsparing of his life, knowing that there are conditions on which life is not worth having. And he is the sort of man to conf ...
we regard as morally satisfactory a community which, by its essential constitution, confines the best things to a few, and requi ...
like Aristotle's magnanimous man, but still he is expected to be rather different from the average citizen, and to have certain ...
in accordance with virtue in a complete life" (1098a). I think he would say that the intellectual virtues are ends, but the prac ...
friendship is only possible between the good, and it is impossible to be friends with many people. One should not be friends wit ...
than pleasure; no one would be content to go through life with a child's intellect, even if it were pleasant to do so. Each anim ...
questions that we can ask about the ethics of Aristotle, or of any other philosopher: (1) Is it internally self-consistent? (2) ...
but this part of his doctrine, though it may be independent of his metaphysics, is not inconsistent with it. (3) When we come to ...
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