Nature, Human Nature, and Political Theory: How Aristotle Helps to Clarify RousseauLitke, Justin B
Aristotle's psychology reserves for the person alone such things as thinking, desiring, and feeling pain. The soul itself is the subject of none of this. Nevertheless, only in virtue of the soul, more exactly certain of its parts, does the person manage to be in a given such state or ...
Aristotle's psychology reserves for the person alone such things as thinking, desiring, and feeling pain. The soul itself is the subject of none of this. Nevertheless, only in virtue of the soul, more exactly certain of its parts, does the person manage to be in a given such state or ...
What does it mean that Aristotle's Ethics is teleological? How would Ralph Waldo Emerson describe a Transcendentalist? How can Aristophanes best be described? How were Simone de Beauvoir and Kant similar? Discuss the brutal attack which Dostoevsky unleashes on the misplaced utopian ideals of the We...
Human nature usually refers to the unique traits of human rationality, consciousness, self reflection, moral emotions, and values. In this sense, generative artificial intelligence itself does not possess humanity, but in its language interaction with humans, it satisfies human desires by recognizing ...
What does David Hume say about the afterlife? How did Locke solve the mind-body problem? What did Descartes think about empiricism? How did David Hume die? How do Descartes and Aristotle agree on dualism? Why is Hume's empiricism radical?
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...
Goethe labels this capacity for self-determination as the creature’s “entelechy,” a term he borrows from Aristotle (Bortoft 1996, p. 268). This capacity is, as Ronald Brady reminds us, the very condition of life itself—“a necessity to change in order to remain the same” (Brady ...
Thick naturalism, by contrast, means that one finds a normative element in nature. When Marcus, in Meditations II.16 and IX.1, says that injustice is unnatural, he is deploying a thick version of naturalism: “Our soul does violence to itself when it turns away from any other person or ...
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 ...