"To become Woodcock, Day-Lewis, who is 60, watched archival footage of fashion shows from the 1940s and ’50s, studied the lives of designers, and most important, learned to sew. He consulted with Cassie Davies-Strodder, then curator of fashion and textiles at the Victoria and Albert Muse...
Drawing on Anscombe, in this essay I argue that we should not take Aristotle to be a moral philosopher, nor a virtue ethicist. This is because contemporary virtue ethics has little to do with Aristotelian ethics. While contemporary virtue ethics (or aretaic moral theory, as one may call it...
which is rich in natural resources and boasts a huge population as well as an expansive market with great potential, now faces a demographical challenge. The United Nations projected that Africa will be home to at least 25 percent of the world's population in 2050, and half of that populatio...
Whatever it is, you're bound to cherish it. 不管是什么,你一定要珍惜它。 The Greek philosopher Aristotle once called memory, "The scribe of the soul," meaning that our memories are integral to our sense of self. 希腊哲学家亚里士多德曾称记忆为“灵魂的抄写员”,意思是我们的记忆是我们自我意识...
I have excluded Plato and Aristotle because they were written in Greek and their writings were not very well-known outside the academy in the Renaissance. Cicero and Seneca have adopted many of their basic ideas.Return to top of pageWhy Cicero's De Officiis?
The Greek philosopher Aristotle’s quote, “The final end of human life is to flourish, to live well, to have a good life” [1], posits that the actions and purpose of human life, in one way or another, are the means for fulfilling an ultimate wish or goal, in order to “flourish...
John Aristotle Phillips, PredictIt founder There is a tricky definitional issue at the heart of the argument over political prediction markets. In a very real sense, everything is gambling. We take our biggest gamble the day we’re born and smaller ones every day after that. And, in a ver...
(1)推理判断题。根据第一段Aristotle said that "happiness depend.s upon ourselves"and a new study suggests it is possible to physically grow a happier brain through practices like meditation(冥想).(亚里士多德说"幸福取决于我们自己",一
Othello is generally considered to be the protagonist of the play Othello, but throughout the story,he doesn't always play the role of “hero.” His life, just like his characterization, is far more complicated than that. What is a tragic hero according to Aristotle?
The Greek thinker Aristotle believed that after people ate food , warm vapors went to their heads . The vapors then cooled and went to their hearts , causing people to feel sleepy. While this is not true . how sleepy you feel does depend on the kind...