doi:10.1515/9783110319613.51Nicholas Rescher
Aristotle’s Golden Mean: Its Implications for the Doping Debatedoi:10.1080/00948705.2010.9714769Jung Hyun HwangCollege of Health and Human DevelopmentR. Scott KretchmarCollege of Health and Human DevelopmentJournal of the Philosophy of Sport
The term was introduced by Aristotle (De Coelo I,2) as ether, the prime mover of the universe. Google Scholar More places scholars in positions of authority; Campanella makes people who are the embodiment of virtues the governors of appropriate departments. Google Scholar This pattern ...
This concept is in line with the ‘golden adulthood’ metaphor of the biological lifecycle (Cai & Yang, 2022), with the rule of the ‘golden mean’ by Aristotelean philosophers (Bartlett & Collins, 2011), and with the ‘middle way thinking’ of the ancient Chinese wisdom (Pan & Sun, ...
but just right. Similarly, Aristotle’s Golden Mean (Lawrenz,2021) dictated that nothing should be in excess. Here, we apply the Goldilocks Effect to the educational expectations of parents, teachers, and students, and parent aspirations (noting that we only have data on aspirations for parents...
Assyrian Christian philosopherJob of Edessadeveloped a physical theory of the universerivaling Aristotle's. NORTH AFRICA Simeon,a teacher in the early church, was from Niger, West Africa, as recorded in Acts 13:1. Mark,writer of the Gospel, preached in ...
[33][34] During the Golden Age of ancient Greece, mead was said to be the preferred drink.[35] Aristotle (384–322 BCE) discussed mead made in Illiria in his Meteorologica and elsewhere, while Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) called mead militites in his Naturalis Historia and differentiated...
ARISTOTLE'S PRINCIPLE OF "THE GOLDEN MEAN" Friedrich Schlegel once remarked that every man is born a Platonist, or an Aristotelian. In other words he meant by this contrast in philosophical outlooks that we are either idealists or realists. We have seen Plato's idealism fully expressed in ...
It was what Augustine achieved in the fifth century with regard to Plato's works, and what Thomas Aquinas achieved in the thirteenth with regard to the philosophy of Aristotle. They were the brightest lights in a grand process that included innumerable, unknown lesser lights who somehow ...
The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball. —Paul Dickson 41 If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse. —Arnold Schwarzenegger 85 The hand is the tool of tools. —Aristotle ...