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This list compiles some of the most famous quotes by Aristotle and a few lesser-known ones, but equally as profound. Related: 75 Stoic Quotes from Philosophers of Stoicism About Life, Happiness ...
In this discussion, Aristotle defines justice as having two different but related senses—general justice and particular justice. General justice is virtue expressed in relation to other people. Thus the just man in this sense deals properly and fairly with others, and expresses his virtue in his dealings with them—not lying or cheating or ...
6. Aristotle's doctrine of the four causes: efficient, material, formal, and final. Physics, II.3-9. Metaphysics I.3-10, V.3, VI.2-3, VII.17, VIII.2-4, IX.8, XII.4-5 7. Further developments in the theory of Potentiality and Actuality, and Matter and Form, especially with respect to substantial change, or Generation and Corruption. [To Be or Not ...
August Immanuel Bekker. Bekker numbering or Bekker pagination is the standard form of citation to the works of Aristotle.It is based on the page numbers used in the Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the complete works of Aristotle (1831–1837) and takes its name from the editor of that edition, the classical philologist August Immanuel Bekker (1785–1871); because the academy was ...
The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, [citation needed] his writings are divisible into two groups: the "exoteric" and the "esoteric". [1]
III.1:3–4 Chapter 2 Highlights aretê, which is defined as virtue or excellence. When applied to rhetoric, aretê means natural rather than forced or artificial. [1]: III.2:1-4 Metaphors are also addressed as a skill that cannot be taught and that should bestow "verbal beauty". [1]: III.2:6–13 Chapter 3 Deals with "frigid" language.
Aristotle analyzed the golden mean in the Nicomachean Ethics Book II: That virtues of character can be described as means. It was subsequently emphasized in Aristotelian virtue ethics . [ 1 ] For example, in the Aristotelian view, courage is a virtue , but if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness , and, in deficiency, cowardice .
- Aristotle, Politics 1.2. Here Aristotle is arguing that it is in human nature to be involved in politics and being uninvolved is a negative trait. The Frogs can be examined through this lens, relating its emphasis on the political change to the attitudes sustained in Athens regarding education and civil duty. Aristotle further claims that ...