An essay or paper on Philosophical Views of Aristotle & Plato. 1. In offering his defense of his actions to the Athenian court in The Apology by Plato, Socrates says that the most important concern for him, and a concern that should be most important fo
In this dissertation I address two related questions pertaining to Aristotle's philosophy of science and his biology and zoology. They are: (1) what are the goals of Aristotle's Historia Animalium (HA) and how does the treatise achieve these goals? And, more generally, (2) what is the ...
If we assume that it is the latter, then a suggested revision is: “Aristotle struggled long and hard to devise a more naturalistic view of Plato’s theory of universals. This struggle is the topic of this essay.” 8 Replace a phrase with one word that means the same thing: “The ...
Some anglophone scholars, such as Martha Nussbaum and John McDowell, have recently praised Aristotle for holding a metaethical view about the nature of justification in ethics. This view holds that ethical beliefs cannot be justified by appeal to extra-ethical claims about human biology, but must ...
Classical Greece is famous for its athletic art, particularly the image of the nude male athlete. But how did the Greeks understand athletic beauty? Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, and others discuss athletes' beauty, while the educational ideal of kalokagathia conceptually connects athletic beauty ...
Deep ecological sport view is a new conception about sport development,which is formed based on ab-sorbing the ideology of superficial ecological sport view and major theories on deep ecology.Deep ecology provides deep ecological sport thinking with philosophical precondition,distinctive world view and ...
using a utilitarian calculus to suppress natural responses of shame and guilt. The best moral training, as Aristotle taught, teaches the young to seek honor and feel shame about the right things. But when evil acts are constantly being done to advance a cause—lying, committing fraud, ...
branch of history proper. On this view, work in philosophical history is distinctive in that it is a way of doing philosophy, and its form is shaped by the value of doing philosophy in this way. At the same time, doing philosophy historically requires that we attempt to understand the ...
This perspective challenges us to think beyond personal gain and consider the moral implications of our actions on a largerscale. The phantasm of philosophical ponderings also extends to inquiries into the meaning of happiness. Aristotle argued that happiness lies not in momentary pleasures but in ...
Aristotle, one of the most well-known philosophers, acknowledged Thales as the first known meta physician. The main branches of metaphysics are ontology, natural theology and universal science. In popular parlance, metaphysics has become the label for the study of things which transcend the natural...