and a whole literature2 has been composed in support of the different meanings which have been attributed to it. But the question is now reduced to a very small one. The word "exoteric" suggests the
That was also true, though indirectly, during the more than one thousand years Aristotle's texts were lost to the Western world. In that long period, Aristotle's thoughts were only known through fragments, quotes, and comments in old texts by others. Not until the late Middle Ages were his...
In other words, from its very beginning, the broad reception of Aristotle from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance implied an intercultural horizon. In this period Aristotle was translated from the Arabic and Greek into Latin and Hebrew, so that the encounter of the Jesuits with the Confucian li...
The Best Epigrams and Quotes from Literature, Poetry, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Sports and Religion Epigram definition #1: a rhetorical device that is brief, concise, memorable, and often witty, humorous, ironic, paradoxical, cutting, scathing and/or satirical. Epigram definition #2: a brief...