That was what happened to Les Brown. He did poorly in school and his friends recommended him to work in the post office or join the army. But he did not listen to them. Instead, he followed his heart. Today, he became an inspirational figure who touches millions of lives across the wo...
I’ve done this with Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics. I’ve done it with Plato’s The Republic. I’ve done it with novels. Done it with all kinds of things. Once you get used to it, it’s very easy. And when using this approach for Ulysses by James Joyce it’s very easy to ...
in which Aristotle’s notion ofhupokeimenon(or its Latin equivalent,subiectum, as that which lies before or under, and is neither active nor passive) becomes reinterpreted as able to act and as acting, resulted in an eclectic, but now regnant notion of a subject-agent who thinks. In this...
Edmund Husserls proposed to recover Aristotle’s ontology that considers that nature has a teleological purpose (Habermas 2012). Geology, as a “gigantic living organism” (although it does not coincide with what we understand by intelligent life), would be endowed with a certain “intentionality...
This entry was posted in Social living, What Would a Stoic Do? on June 14, 2018. Virtue ethics is a big tent: a response to Edith Hall Zeno vs Aristotle Classics professor Edith Hall has recently published a fascinating article in Aeon entitled “Why read Aristotle today?,” on the ...
Aristotle (亚里士多德) a Greek thinker said “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” In other words we make our own happiness. Here are a few suggestions to help you be happier. The first secret of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life. Too often we spend so much time thinking ...
uppity women infest literature; or because militant feminists are an obstacle to the prorape, prodominance art of talented living or dead men; or because the multicultural reader--likely to be female and/or not white--values Alice Walker and Toni Morrison above Aristotle and the Marquis de Sad...
Greek scientist and philosopher Aristotle even wrote about harvesting tasty cicadas. If that's not enough, we'll get Biblical on you. In the Old Testament book of Leviticus, the writers did a nice job of outlining the foods that are forbidden and permissible to consume. Off-limits were ...
Let me answer this in the negative first. Our role is not to ignore the society we live in. It is not to pretend we can live without these things. Worse, it is not to divide the children’s lives into a technology free zone where we can learn technology free things and to let a ...
Some of them glibly claim that there is no need for Taoist conceptions of happiness, such as the way of water and its emphasis on Yin-Yang dialectical interactions, by asserting that these Taoist concepts have already been covered by Aristotle’s eudaimonia and Reeve, Deci, and Ryan’s...