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Aristotle's liberality.
My dissertation argues that Aristotle intends his account of unnatural economic arts in Book I of the Politics to emphasize the moral danger posed by the pursuit of wealth and reveal the importance of the household—and the family within it— as the natural association where human acquisition …
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Aristotle on the concept of life
… addresses an interpretive problem in Aristotle’s ontology of life. Living things are the central focus of Aristotle’s ontology: they are “substances most of all”. Yet Aristotle also claims that “life” cannot be univocally defined: it is a homonymous term. One reason “life” does not …
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Milton's Knowledge and Use of Aristotle
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Prudence in Aristotle and ST. Thomas Aquinas
For Aristotle, prudence or practical wisdom is a virtue of thought that is practical rather than theoretical and deliberative rather than intuitive. It is the intellectual virtue that perfects reasoning in regard to decision making in the realm of human action. To have this virtue is to be good at …
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Politics and the Aesthetic Animal: Aristotle and Adorno
… the neglected role of other animals and art in Aristotle’s classic conception of the human being, and argues that the work of T.W. Adorno can be drawn upon to recover this conception’s neglected promise. By reading Aristotle’s oft-cited claim that ‘the human being is by nature a political …
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Law in Aristotle's ethical-political thought
Proclaiming that man is a political animal, Aristotle overcame the Sophists' opposition between law and nature. My dissertation looks at whether the law successfully promotes the human good in Aristotle's political philosophy. Aristotle believes law should inculcate the virtues of character. In …
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Aristotle and the Cynics on happiness and misfortune
… ethics is the question concerning happiness. As Aristotle famously poses it in EN I, that everyone is concerned with happiness is given but as to what it is there is much dispute. My dissertation project takes up the question of happiness and considers its relation to fortune, and in particular, …
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Aristotle on the metaphysical status of mathematical entities
… metaphysical status of mathematical entities in Aristotle. Aristotle endorses a form of realism about mathematical entities: for him as well as for Platonists, anti–realism, the view that mathematical objects do not exist, is not a viable option. The thesis consists of two main parts: a part …
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The priority of being to truth according to Aristotle
… appears to be a difficulty in the account which Aristotle offers of being and truth in the Categories and De Interpretatione. In general terms, Aristotle's position is the "realist" one that "propositions are true according to how things are." This "realism" is evident in a Tamilian priority …
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Making a change : Aristotle on poiêsis, kinêsis and energeia
I examine the relation between the action of producing a change (kinêsis) in something else and the action of exercising one’s nature or craft (energeia). I call for the distinction between kinêsis and energeia by arguing that in Metaphysics IX.1-5 change should be construed as a transformational …
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The doctrine of Chance in the Work of Aristotle
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Flourishing Selfhood in Aristotle and Authentic Selfhood in Heidegger
This dissertation explores Aristotle's concept of human flourishing, or eudaimonia, through the lens of the flourishing self. Connections will be made with Heidegger's concept of authenticity, as seen through the lens of authentic selfhood. It is argued that there is some type of authenticity or …
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Aristotle and Modern Theorists on the Elements of Tragedy
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Comparing Hobbes's Gratitude and Aristotle's Magnanimity
… natural law of gratitude was influenced by Aristotle's virtue of magnanimity and friendships that accompany virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics. However, Hobbes would problematize Aristotle’s magnanimous person (or the great-souled man) because they reject gratitude for their benefactions on …
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The Ontology of Not-Being in Aristotle and His Predecessors
<p>Aristotle is not thought to have a theory of not-being, but, in this project, I show that there are several distinct ways of not-being established in his writings. As being is said according to what is in-itself, what is accidentally, what is true, and what is actualized, so not-being is …
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The Stoics and the practical: a Roman reply to Aristotle
… to which Stoicism emerges, those of Plato and Aristotle. I offer an extensive discussion of Aristotle's critique of Platonism, showing how it paves the way for Stoicism by assigning a greater role to pre-reflective impulses than to theoretical reason, while assigning to impulses the blame for …
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Proclus on Aristotle on Plato. A Case Study on Motion
… on Proclus (412–485 AD) and his engagement with Aristotle’s theory of motion with a specific focus on Aristotle’s criticism of Plato. There are two main goals. (i) I refute the widespread view that Proclus – in line with other Neoplatonists – adheres to the idea of an essential harmony between …
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