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The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, [1] and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names of persons.There are hundreds of thousands and even millions of individuals whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself.
Father of Logic: Aristotle [4] The Jewish Luther: Moses Mendelssohn [5] Laughing Philosopher: Democritus [6] Longshoreman Philosopher: Eric Hoffer [7] Mother of Feminism: Mary Wollstonecraft [8] Philosopher of Fascism: Giovanni Gentile [9] Plato: Aristocles son of Ariston, [10] but see Plato#Name. The Philosopher: Aristotle [4]
An example is the concept of proper pleasure or oikeia hedone, which Aristotle discusses in /Poetics/ and considers a process of restoration. [7] Martin Heidegger interprets Aristotelian hēdonē : that pleasure is a movement of the soul and that tranquility arises from it.
Aristotle conceived of politics as being like an organism rather than like a machine, and as a collection of parts none of which can exist without the others. Aristotle's conception of the city is organic, and he is considered one of the first to conceive of the city in this manner. [144] Aristotle's classifications of political constitutions.
Aristotle of Sicily, a rhetorician; Aristotle, several authors mentioned in a passage on writers named "Aristotle" by the writer Diogenes Laërtius in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (v. 35) but who are otherwise unknown: Aristotle, author of a work On Excess (Περὶ Πλεονασμοῦ) Aristotle, author of a work on the Iliad
Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath", and in a religious context for "spirit". [1] [2] It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity, particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used in Greek translations of ruach רוח in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Greek New Testament.
Porphyry sought to show that Plato and Aristotle were in harmony with each other, especially in regards to the compatibility of Aristotle's Categories with Plato's Theory of Forms. [3] Porphyry's pupil Iamblichus continued this process of harmonising Plato and Aristotle, and Dexippus , a disciple of Iamblichus , wrote a Reply to the Objections ...
Proxenus of Atarneus (Greek: Πρόξενος ὁ Ἀταρνεύς) is most famous for being Aristotle's guardian after the death of his parents. Proxenus educated Aristotle for a couple of years before sending him to Athens to Plato's Academy. He lived in Atarneus, a city in Asia Minor.