How To Use Aristotle In A Sentence

Greeks like Aristotle, who opposed atomism, equated it with a blind desire to abnegate the governance of Nature in favour of pure chance.
The vital factor he boldly designates "entelechy", or "psychoid", and advocated a return to Aristotle for the most helpful conception of the principle of life. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Later translated into Latin by Boethius around 500 AD, Aristotle’s influence spread throughout Syria and Islam whilst Christian Europe ignored him in favour of Plato.
Aristotle's scientific theories dominated Western thought for fifteen hundred years.
In contrast to Aristotle, Brentano emphasizes the importance of existential judgements with only one term, and claims that predicative judgements are a special case of existential ones.

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Authors customarily used the commentary format not only to expound the works of Aristotle, but also as a vehicle for original philosophical theorizing.
And the key to its success is that Trilling takes what Aristotle called dianoia “thought,” which he defined as a lesser element of tragedy, and makes it indistinguishable from ethos, character. Archive 2009-07-01
It would be absurd to blame Aristotle for his conceptual poverty: poverty is a lack, not a failing.
This so-called deductive method of Aristotle assumed as a starting-point some general of principle as a premise or hypothesis and thence proceeded, by logical reasoning, to deduce concrete applications or consequences. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
Albertus Magnus [Alberto Magno] "To Albertus Magnus, because he investigated the natural phenomena in emulation of Aristotle, in immense volumes, as a most holy concern for posterity Federico set this up for one who deserved it well. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Copernican revolution in philosophy", as he termed it: the most fundamental revolution in the whole history of epistemology; and his ethics is the most important one since Aristotle's. New Releases
At this point Aristotle observes that substances - material bodies - are in a sense composite.
First, Aristotle and his followers practise a haphazard, uncritical collection of data.
He told the accused that he was going to arrest them. Regan said. "Oh, are you?" and called out. "Pass me an 'Aristotle.'"
And, of course, the Romans already had the example of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum.
Aristotle construed the deductive stage of scientific inquiry as the interposition of middle terms between the subject and predicate terms of the statement to be proved.
Plato is definitely easier to understand than Aristotle – at least the one work by Aristotle that I read. Archive 2009-05-01
Further, Mr. Grote supposes, not that (Greek) means ‘revolving,’ or that this is the sense in which Aristotle understood the word, but that the rotation of the earth is necessarily implied in its adherence to the cosmical axis. Timaeus
And Aristotle is surely mistaken in asserting that knowledge is always causal.
Aristotle's wheel paradox: Rolling joined concentrical wheels seem to trace the same difference with their circumferences, even though the circumferences are different. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. Aristotle
Aristotle gave a system of logical deduction which was seen as the ultimate form for reasoning for many centuries.
He also credits Aristotle with saying: Teachers who educated children deserved more honour than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life (p. 463). Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
What Aristotle had written in ancient Greece, classifying the minerals known then, remained unchallenged and unimproved into the nineteenth century.
Aristotle condemns usury because it is the most extreme and dangerous form of chrematistic acquisition, or the art of making money for its own sake. An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching
Billionaire Greek shipping mogul Aristotle Onassis is credited for kicking off the private-island trend in 1968 when he married Jackie Kennedy on Skorpios, his paradise in the Ionian Sea.
Aristotle (2000 [C4 BCE]) Nicomachean Ethics, ed. and introd. Well-Being
However, what I really have in mind is something Ancient, and is really captured by terms like 'virtue' and 'wisdom' and (perhaps most of all) "eudaimonia"; and the thinkers I am leaning on are first, Alasdair MacIntyre, and second, Martha Nussbaum (and behind them both lies Aristotle). What do I mean by 'emotional intelligence'?
Aristotle recognizes different sociopolitical classes or categories of women and men.
And just as the democrat will not admit of a secular constitution which the people could not destroy and which would prevent him from making bad laws; just as the democrat will not submit -- if we may adopt the terminology of Aristotle -- to being governed by _laws_, to be governed that is by an ancient body of law which would check the people and obstruct it in its daily fabrication of _decrees_; so just in the same spirit the democrat does not admit of a God Who has issued His commandments, Who has issued His body of laws, anterior and superior to all the laws and all the decrees of men, and Who sets His limit on the legislative eccentricities of the people, on its capricious omnipotence, in a word, on the sovereignty of the people. The Cult of Incompetence
Aristotle _Rhet_ 1414a) remarks that because of Homer's use of epanaphora (the repetition of Nireus 'name) and dialysis (asyndeton)' [Greek: schedon hapax tou Nireôs onomasthentos en tôi dramati memnêmetha ouden hêtton ê tou Achilleôs kai tou Odysseôs] '. The Last Poems of Ovid
Aristotle, at Politics 128036-8, remarks that ‘thusiai’, groups which sacrifice together, are a precondition for the city, along with families, phratries, and other works of friendship.
Aristotle's scientific theories dominated Western thought for fifteen hundred years.
According to Aristotle, the male semen provides the formative power that shapes the foetus, mentally and physically.
Contributing to the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus were — besides Plato (read very selectively) and the Platonist and Neo-Pythagorean commentators on his thought — a constructively critical consideration of Aristotle and his Peripatetic commentators and an influence, deep at some points, of Stoic ideas which Plotinus 'conscious and frequently expressed hostility to Stoic corporealism could not overcome. NEO-PLATONISM
Aristotle had a word for this: phronesis. Times, Sunday Times
While in Plato there is the foreshadowing of the truth that the goal of moral endeavour lies in godlikeness, with Aristotle the goal is confined to this life and is conceived simply as the earthly well-being of the moral subject. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
In his view, the soul is far more noble than the hylomorphic account of Aristotle implies, at least as Valla understands that account. Lorenzo Valla
Zac talked in a monotonous drone about the hidden treasures of Egypt, the esoteric wisdom that Aristotle stole, or was it Plato, and then the Egyptians forgot everything.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle
We make money from your empty Aristotles.
A point of interest is that the windpipe, or trachea, is called "arteria," both by Aristotle and by Hippocrates ( "Anatomy," Littre, VIII, 539). The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913
Aristotle would not approve of all the subplots that occur within this play.
We have commented above on the disputes among modern scholars as to whether Aristotle wrote the treatises now assigned to him.
Thus Aristotle avoided the idea that God was inactive and self-contemplative for an eternity, and then for some unknown reason, or by some unknown motive, commenced to act outwardly and produce; but he incurred the opposite hazard, of making the result of His action, matter and the Universe, be co-existent with Himself; or, in other words, of denying that there was any time when His outward action _commenced_. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Stoicism indeed seems to fall back into the materialism that I prevailed before Plato and Aristotle; but the ethical dualism which dominated the mood of the Stoic philosophers, did not in the long run tolerate the materialistic physics; it sought and found help in the metaphysical dualism of the Platonists, and at the same time reconciled itself to the popular religion by means of allegorism, that is, it formed a new theology. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
In fact, Aristotle often indicates that dialectical argument is by nature refutative.
Thus in Aristotle's view, there are accidental phenomena in nature, and they are not subject to scientific knowledge.
I delivered a paper on anachronism and identification in Aristotle and Freud a million years ago at a conference in New York.
It is said that at an early age he disliked the Logic of Aristotle, and began to excogitate his system of English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
To inspect a lobster's limbs, we lay it on its back (as Aristotle did), and see the legs overlapping, each hinder one above the one before; the hindmost is the first we see, and the one we must first lift up to inspect the others. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
Aristotle's Greek word, that is commonly and traditionally translated as "[mental] image" is “phantasma” His Name Was Do Re Mi
No one loves the man whom he fears. Aristotle
But what is seen is a shape or form, and Plato's pupil, Aristotle, preferred the term eidos, probably because he could not accept his master's theory of ideas. IDEA
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle propounded theories about the nature of existence and how human beings should live.
I have several dozen aristotles of beer in the shed.
The tragic hero's reversal inspires pity if it is due not to wickedness of character but rather to some hamartia, by which Aristotle seems to mean some error in action, sometimes blameworthy and sometimes not.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle
Aristotle's logical works were arranged in an order of increasing complexity, beginning with the Categories, which deals with simple, uncombined utterances. John Philoponus
Aristotle also points out that sometimes the hypothesis of the genus is omitted as too obvious.
Socrates, the fearless Utopianism of Plato, the ambitious encyclopaedism of Aristotle, mark the dawn of a new courage and a new wilfulness in human affairs. The Pivot of Civilization
To perceive is to suffer. Aristotle
Aristotle wrote two ethical treatises: the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics.
Aristotle noted the principle on which the camera obscura depends, having observed how the round image of the sun passed undistorted through the angular interstices of wickerwork.
What the standard histories of philosophy write about Aristotle's teleology is unfortunately largely wrong, and must be ignored. Against Darwinism
In applying his general hylomorphism to soul-body relations, Aristotle contends that the following general analogy obtains.
Yet what emerges after Aristotle is a complex relationship between the classical mode of reading and judging character - physiognomy - and the rise and triumph of inner, scientific understandings of expression based on physiology.
Aristotle; all those subsequently repeated by Lucretius and Ovid; all the experiments of the renowned Abbé Spallanzani -- all the alleged "fantastic assumptions" of M. Bonnet -- all the theories of "panspermism," by whomsoever advocated -- all the fortuitous aggregations of "_molecules organiques, _" as put forth by the French school of materialists -- all the Life: Its True Genesis
Banning hunting is Aristotle's tyranny of democracy and parliamentary dictatorship.
But, with the second successor of Aristotle, Strato of Lampsacus, another kind of hylozoism, clearly materialistic, came into existence. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
The last opposition of I and O statements, later to be dubbed subcontraries because they appear below the contraries on the traditional square, is a peculiar opposition indeed; Aristotle elsewhere (Prior Analytics Contradiction
But I should think him mistaken here, and that this is not the meaning of Aristotles [Greek: analogon]. Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)
As such, it is about Aristotle's logic, which is not always the same thing as what has been called "Aristotelian" logic. Aristotle's Logic
Neither Aristotle nor Plato envisioned their cosmic cyclicity as requiring any detailed endless repetition such as the multiple births of Socrates, though some Stoic philosophers did adopt this drastic position.
Judged solely in terms of his philosophical influence, only Plato is his peer: Aristotle's works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and even today continue to be studied with keen, non-antiquarian interest. Wayne Hale: NASA Can Provide the Inspiration - NASA Watch
For 2000 years, philosophers had to choose whether they followed Plato and his rationalism, or Aristotle and his empiricism.
Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle, but thought very highly of Democritus.
In the Mutazalite tradition of Islam there was also a tendency to slide towards emanationism and pantheism, as a result of endorsing the pantheistic necessitarianism of Aristotle.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter. Aristotle
Metaphysics VII 3: In abstracting all qualities and other determinations from body Aristotle arrived at a conception of characterless, undetermined matter, a “prime matter” that the Neoplatonists later defined as formless and incorporeal (because it was no actual body, but only the necessary underlying condition for bodies). John Philoponus
During the Q&A, following last Thursday's WGAe preview screening, Sorkin eloquently delineated the various materials with which he crafted his character arcs: Aristotle. Susanna Speier: The Social Network Politiku
Aristotle was born at Stagira, a Greek colony on the Macedonian coast of modern Salonica, in 384 BC.
Aristotle's approach to the subject is to ask "why some animals are footless, others bipeds, others quadrupeds, others polypods, and why all have an even number of feet, if they have feet at all; why in fine the points on which progression depends are even in number. Archive 2009-03-01
Aristotle's own more subtle position was not appreciated; the only alternatives were seen as being that the world is the result of divine design or that it is the product of mere random happenings.
But this label prejudices the case in favor of Aquinas's perspective: it assumes that Marston has been seduced by an Islamic misreading of Aristotle, and it closes off the possibility that Augustine and Aristotle might have more in common than is typically allowed. Divine Illumination
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head. Moby Dick; or the Whale
The former of these hath begotten two arts, both of prediction or prenotion; whereof the one is honoured with the inquiry of Aristotle, and the other of Hippocrates. The Advancement of Learning
But this _insensibility_, this heartlessness, gives very much the effect of a positive and real ill nature, and M. Bergson had thus simply repeated and expressed in a new way, more precise and correct, the opinion of Aristotle: the cause of laughter is malice mitigated by insensibility or the absence of sympathy. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
Aristotle displays some hesitation in his discussion of desire and its relation to practical reason in the aetiology of animal action.
Panurge was all the more adread, as Aristotle testifieth that men Letters to Dead Authors
But the king, who had studied artistic theory with Aristotle and fancied himself a connoisseur of fine paintings, demanded that Apelles try again. Alexander the Great
Sophocles' play was for Aristotle an exemplary tragedy, both formally, in terms of unity of action, and in its tragic story.
Aristotle's scientific theories dominated Western thought for fifteen hundred years.
For some four centuries Aristotle's philosophy and Aristotle's science ruled the West with virtually unchallenged sway.
Aristotle, I confess, in his acute and singular book of physiognomy, hath made no mention of chiromancy: 80 yet I believe the Religio Medici
The bridle and the rudder too, he sent for Aristotle, the most learned and most cerebrated philosopher of his time, and rewarded him with a munificence proportionable to and becoming the care he took to instruct his son. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Theology of Aristotle claims that he acted as the revisor of this work, in fact an adapted translation of parts of Plotinus 'Enneads IV-VI. Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy
St. Thomas Aquinas, a medieval theologian , tried to reconcile Aristotle's philosophy of natural law with Christianity.
Aristotle was charged with preferring flimsy theories and sterile syllogisms to the solid, fertile facts.
When he entered upon this office he intended to have prelected upon the tragedies of Sophocles; but he altered his intention and made choice of Aristotle's rhetoric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
The controversy arose from Thomas's introduction of Aristotle's philosophy, passed along from Arab philosophers, particularly Averroes (1126-1198).
Then there were several books of physics, and after that there were a series of books signed by Aristotle which dealt with matters unclassifiable within the established schema.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle
A point of interest is that the windpipe, or trachea, is called "arteria," both by Aristotle and by Hippocrates ( "Anatomy," Littré, VIII, 539). The Evolution of Modern Medicine
Aristotle is also credited with coming up with the structure of syllogisms, or the formal determination of what can be inferred necessarily from certain statements.
Among these were a commentary and a “questionary” on Aristotle's Physics; the latter, appearing in its first complete edition in 1551, was a much simplified and abridged version of the type of physics text that was used at Paris in the first decades of the sixteenth cen - tury. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Aristotle was a great orderer of ideas
But both of these are distinct from intellectual, abstract or contemplative wisdom which was, for Aristotle, the highest goal.
After the doc puttied my tooth, I decided to drop down to the Cat bar and lay some of these eternal writer babe questions on my own personal Aristotle, Big Al. Big Al hovers around three twenty. Big Al Dissects Literary Fiction since No One Else in the Bar could pronounce Aristotle
Choose a field of research, and Aristotle laboured in it; pick an area of human endeavour, and Aristotle discoursed upon it.
Newsweek. com has a gallery of images that shows the evolution of contraception (or what we believed to be contraception at the time), from olive oil — recommended by Aristotle in the 4th century BC — to the hormone-releasing options that we can get at the gyno today. Open Rights Group forum on proposal to cut British households off from the net if one member is accused of illegal downloads - Boing Boing
Foundational to Garver's argument is Aristotle's insight that the rhetorically relevant ethos is the one that is constructed in the rhetor's discourse.
These views must not, therefore, be confounded with what is commonly termed the telluric or atmospheric origin of meteoric stones, nor yet with the singular opinion of Aristotle, which supposed the enormous mass of Â®gos COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
Since it was the Stoics who, in antiquity, developed a sentence logic, by contrast with Aristotle's term logic, it would appear that Boethius's treatise on hypothetical syllogisms is the tributary of Stoic logic.
Further, Aristotle distinguishes between enthymemes taken from probable premises and enthymemes taken from signs (sêmeia).
Nothing is to be calld a fault in poetry, says Aristotle, but what is against the art; therefore a man may be an admirable poet without being an exact chronologer. Dedication
His treatises _De Inventione_ and _Topica_, the first and nearly the last of his compositions, are both on the invention of arguments, which he regards, with Aristotle, as the very foundation of the art; though he elsewhere confines the term eloquence, according to its derivation, to denote excellence of diction and delivery, to the exclusion of argumentative skill. [ Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
The willing of the good springs not from love, but appears as something entirely independent and unbased, along-side of knowledge and along-side of love; and for the very reason that Aristotle knows not the moral power of love, he can discover for the civic virtue of the great multitude no other motive than fear. Christian Ethics. Volume I.��History of Ethics.
But it does not follow that Aristotle was not at bottom a systematic thinker; and the theory of science expounded in the Posterior Analytics cannot be dismissed as an irrelevant archaism, a genuflection to Plato's ghost.
So, although Aristotle holds that ethics cannot be reduced to a system of rules, however complex, he insists that some rules are inviolable.
The difference cannot be that our language contains a single word (˜man™) for a rational animal, but no single word for a pale man, for Aristotle has already conceded (1029b28) that we might very well have had a single term (he suggests himation, literally ˜cloak™) for a pale man, but that would still not make the formula ˜pale man™ a definition nor pale man an essence (1030a2). Aristotle's Metaphysics
Thebans Amphiaraus, and the Lebadians Trophonius; one religion is as true as another, new fangled devices, all for human respects; great-witted Aristotle's works are as much authentical to them as Scriptures, subtle Seneca's Epistles as canonical as St. Paul's, Pindarus 'Odes as good as the Prophet Anatomy of Melancholy
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
It was developed by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, who brought to their description of the world-forming process a higher notion of cosmothetic mind than the pre-Socratic philosophers possessed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
For Aristotle, equality meant equal treatment for equals and unequal treatment for unequals with respect to given qualities, a conception of fairness that virtually requires a very unequal society.
Hence peripateticism, the philosophy of Aristotle, as he was said to have taught in the walks of the Lyceum at Athens. The Peripatetic Scribe
Introductions (attributed to Aristophanes) to some plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, based on the Didascaliae (lists of dramatic productions) of Aristotle and on Peripatetic research, are extant in an abbreviated form.
With them, though the term aitía was employed, and even occasionally in several of the senses in which Aristotle later distinguished it, the commoner term was arché, with which the former was apparently generally interchangeable. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
(or what Aristotle would call categorial) content, vowel forms are content-neutral. Method and Metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman
Aristotle, who will still have a hand in everything, makes a 'quaere' upon the saying of Solon, that none can be said to be happy until he is dead: "whether, then, he who has lived and died according to his heart's desire, if he have left an ill repute behind him, and that his posterity be miserable, can be said to be happy? The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
a survey of the nature of wisdom, according to the sense of the ancient philosophers, we shall find Aristotle, in the sixth of his Ethics, and the seventh chapter, defining it, nous kai ` episte'me ton timiota'ton te phu'sei, that is, the understanding and knowledge of things in their nature the most excellent and valuable. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, an English Franciscan of the thirteenth century, was a mutationist in his way, as Aristotle, "the Philosopher" of the Christian Schoolmen, had been in his. Evolution in Modern Thought
The best examples in the period after c. 730 of collections of scholia with introductions are probably the commentaries on Porphyry's and Aristotle™s logical works by Leo Magentenos (late 12th or early to mid-13th century). Byzantine Philosophy
As well as this radical departmentalizing of knowledge, Aristotle imports a further difference.
And going back just a little earlier, Aristotle, the co-founder of Western philosophy along with Plato, gave lectures on ethics which described the goal of human life as what he called eudaimonia, that is to say, happiness or human fulfilment. Integral Options Cafe
Moreover, Galileo approved Aristotle's position that explanatory principles must be induced from the data of sense experience.
Thus the fateful clash between settlers from the culture of Aristotle, St. Paul, Da Vinci, Luther, and Newton and aboriginal horsemen from the buffalo plains happened as though in a time warp—as though the former were looking backward thousands of years at premoral, pre-Christian, low-barbarian versions of themselves. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
Aristotle asserted the value of poetry by focusing on imitation rather than rhetoric.
Lessing, Wieland, Herder, Goethe, and Schiller (Wil - helm Münch, “Über den Begriff des Klassikers” in Zum deutschen Kultur - und Bildungsleben, Berlin [1912]), an extremely heterogeneous group of which Klopstock today would appear to belong to what is usually called sentimentalism; Lessing, in spite of his polemics against the practices of French tragedy, is a ration - alistic classicist who worshipped Aristotle; Wieland is rather a man of the Enlightenment whose art strikes us often as rococo; Herder would seem an irrationalistic preromantic. CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
One thing, however, can be said with reasonable confidence: throughout his life Aristotle was driven by one overmastering desire - the desire for knowledge.
Alchemists believed that matter was made up of a mixture of Aristotle's elements: fire, earth, water and air.
I am looking forward to the day Twitter goes the way of the dinosaurs: extinction. reply big aristotle Twitter’s New Headquarters As Shown Off By Employees (Pictures)
At this time ideas of the trajectory taken by a projectile were still dominated by Aristotle's thinking.
The category, in its predicamental sense, involves that of relation, as is noted by Aristotle. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Averroes, the Cordoba physician, became the faithful editor of and commentator on the works of Aristotle.
His attempts at being universal are taken for granted; after all, literature, since Aristotle, has been seen—often purblindly—as a “universal” category. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
If reason could create or destroy feelings, then Aristotle would not be faced with the problem of akrasia.
And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, finding, as Aristotle would have said, relief and even comfort in the "purgation" through poetry, of the passions of pity and terror. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
He begins with the vocative attributed to Aristotle by Montaigne and others: ‘O my friends, there are no friends!’
Aristotle, in the 4th century BC, decided that everything had been sussed out, which included, one supposes, his belief that rainfall was not a sufficient factor to make the rivers run.
But Aristotle seems to be against this opinion, who hath observed that oil grows sweeter by being kept in vessels not exactly filled, and afterwards ascribes this melioration to the air; for more air, and therefore more powerful to produce the effect, flows into a vessel not well filled. Essays and Miscellanies
We got a couple of aristotles in the fridge, mum?
How could Aristotle have held such an incongruent view?
Aristotle thus does not argue that it is a necessary truth (that is, he does not try to prove the it); rather, he argues that it is indubitable.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. Aristotle
Galileo took the position that all celestial phenomena should be interpreted in terms of terrestrial analogies, against Aristotle's basic postulate of essential differences.
“As generally under - stood,” Aristotle said in the Ethics, “the boaster is a man who pretends to creditable qualities that he does not possess, or possesses in a lesser degree than he makes out, while conversely the self-depreciator dis - claims or disparages good qualities that he does possess. IRONY
Making dianoia the vehicle of ideas makes more sense in the context of Greek tragedies, which Aristotle would, of course, have had in mind, than it does in the context of novels; in a Greek tragedy it's not uncommon for the major action to happen off stage, and everything is commented on by the omnipresent Chorus. Plot and thought
Nicephorus; Gregory Asbestus, former metropolitan of Syracuse and the consecrator of Photius; Eustratius, commentator on Aristotle and polemist under Alexius Comnenus; and Bessarion, afterwards cardinal. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it. Aristotle
Also, for Aristotle, movement in a broad sense, which he termed kinesis, separated the animate from the inanimate, and without kinesis there would be no soul, and thus no kind of consciousness or intuition. SPACE
When Aristotle immortalized the term hubris, he could well have been talking about Sean Graney, the experimental Chicago theater director who, this fall, decided to adapt and stage not one Sophoclean drama, but all seven at once. News - chicagotribune.com
The study of inferences involving modal operators goes back to Aristotle, and was continued in the Middle Ages.
[2688] Sometimes the extremity of the ears tingle, and are red, sometimes the whole face, Etsi nihil vitiosum commiseris, as Lodovicus holds: though Aristotle is of opinion, omnis pudor ex vitio commisso, all shame for some offence. Anatomy of Melancholy
Anger, as Aristotle, Epicureans, and Stoics all argue, is not a mere animal reaction; it involves an attitude towards an object that is based upon certain beliefs.
Yet Aristotle is confident that Thales belongs, even if honorifically, to that group of thinkers that he calls “inquirers into nature” and distinguishes him from earlier poetical “myth-makers.” Presocratic Philosophy
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle
He presented evidence for Aristotle's recognition of a type of term between equivocal and univocal terms, some instances of which were characterized by their use according to priority and posteriority.
As Aristotle states, knowledge is an assimilation to the thing known.
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues. Aristotle
Aristotle investigates character traits - continence and incontinence - that are not as blameworthy as the vices but not as praiseworthy as the virtues.
And ultimately it becomes a mere questioning after the "thingliness" (Seiendheit) of things (Seienden), which as οὐσία becomes ἐνέργεια in Aristotle and ἰδέα in the philosophy of Plato. Enowning
Like Aristotle - his unacknowledged master throughout Parts 3 and 4 of the Ethics - he believes that moral questions can be objectively posed and objectively answered.
And this: Alexander, a recent coloniser, brought Aristotle to the barbarians; thus the widespread mania for believing that the Graeco-Romans invented the world; and thus the contempt — in secondary education — for things Eastern just a bit of Egypt, Luxor and the pyramids, so that children can learn to draw shadows. Archive 2010-04-01
But then, legitimate or not, this kind of appeal to nature runs through almost all of ancient ethics: it can be traced in the moral theories of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, and the Stoics, among others.
Aristotle says (Ethic. vi, 9, 10, 11) that "good counsel," "synesis" and Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Aristotle, Theophrastus, Theodectes, and Ephorus, the most suitable of all for an oration, either at the beginning or in the middle; they think that it is very suitable for it at the end also; in which place the cretic appears to me to be better. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
A second sort of puzzle relates to the fact that Aristotle's mereological definition only seems to apply to a realm of continuous entities.
As we say over here, your aristotle should be doing the ol 'half-a-crown/sixpence, half-a-crown/sixpence routine! On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
As Aristotle in his Ethicks doth saye of the losse which shippmen do suffer in a tempest/which do cast out of their ship al their Goodes whẽ they be in daunger of shipp wracke: They seame truly to be compelled to do it/and yet willingly they do it/and therfor they are sayed. A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the sam
For, as Aristotle says rightly, the moving of laughter is a fault in comedy, a kind of turpitude that depraves some part of a man's nature without a disease. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
Taylor, in his translation of this passage, was so strongly imbued with the "grey-headed errour," that in order to elucidate the somewhat obscure meaning of Aristotle, he has actually interpolated the text with the exploded fallacy of Ctesias, and after the word reclining to sleep, has inserted the words "_leaning against some wall or tree_," which are not to be found in the original.] Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
Chinamen (cited by Mr Candidate Mulligan) in consequence of defective reunion of the maxillary knobs along the medial line so that (as he said) one ear could hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent upon the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in the case of females impregnated by delinquent rape, that distressing manner of delivery called by the Brandenburghers STURZGEBURT, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents — in a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations. Ulysses
In other cases, some 15th-century Spanish Jewish philosophers even openly attacked Averroism as an old-fashioned trend: Eli Habillo did this around 1470, in introducing his own translation of Antonius Andreas 'questions on Aristotle's Metaphysics. Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought
Aristotle's scientific theories dominated Western thought for fifteen hundred years.
Hence also dimensive quantity has of itself a kind of individuation, so that we can imagine several lines of the same species, differing in position, which is included in the notion of this quantity; for it belongs to dimension for it to be "quantity having position" (Aristotle, Categor. iv), and therefore dimensive quantity can be the subject of the other accidents, rather than the other way about. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Aristotle's study of sophistical arguments is contained in On Sophistical Refutations, which is actually a sort of appendix to the Topics.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter. Aristotle
The concepts ˜proof™ (apodeixis) and ˜sullogismos™ play a crucial role in Aristotle's logical-dialectical theory. Aristotle's Rhetoric
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle
But for Aristotle and his followers, the belief held that the only knowledge we can acquire originates in sense-perceptions.
Catholic theologians, from Jerome to Augustine to Aquinas to the Council of Trent, more or less followed Aristotle's distinction between "unformed" and "formed" or "animated" fetuses to argue that ensoulment, and therewith, fully human life begins not at conception but at some later point in embryonic development. John Seery: Pro-life Phoniness
Aristotle believed that virtue is a rational middle way and evil is the deviation from mean.
Aristotle believed that politics, or how people lived together in society, were part of ethics.
Organisms in and on the sand grains are manipulated towards the mouth along the food grooves, and then exposed and/or macerated by the crushing action of the Aristotle's lantern.
A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
But both of these are distinct from intellectual, abstract or contemplative wisdom which was, for Aristotle, the highest goal.

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