intentional building

Aristotle begins with a simple question: what makes a thing perform its function well? A knife is good when it cuts well; he contends that a human is good when he or she exercises reason well. This is part of our nature and it is what makes us distinctive as humans. Hence, for Aristotle, human excellence is reason-guided activity of the soul in... See more

Rather than choosing between thinking and doing, profit and purpose, or extremes of hope and despair, he fused sustained inquiry with ambitious execution—building institutions that embodied his philosophical convictions.