Sublime

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat. The world is bad; let us learn to be independent of it.

“We are what we repeatedly do,” Aristotle said,

But the justice in transactions between man and man is a sort of equality indeed, and the injustice a sort of inequality; not according to that kind of proportion, however, but according to arithmetical proportion. For it makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man or a bad man a good one, nor whether it is a good or a bad man th

Aristotle was the first who systematically used dissection findings (animal not human) as a grounding for his biomedical theories.

“Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?” “I’ve

John disagrees with the Aristotelians in refusing substantiality to particular things. He calls Plato the summit of philosophers. But the first three of his kinds of being are derived indirectly from Aristotle’s moving-not-moved, moving-and-moved, moved-but-not-moving. The fourth kind of being in John’s system, that which neither creates nor is cre

Aristotle was the first to discuss in depth and with acuity the meaning of ‘space’, or ‘place’, and to arrive at a precise definition: the place of a thing is what surrounds that thing.

To love wisdom, so Aristotle taught, was to train the mind in the skills required to trace its laws.