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  • I was standing at the bookshelves with the ball in my hand and she thought it was like Hamlet gazing on Yorick's skull or maybe Aristotle, even better she said, contemplating the bust of Homer.†   (source)
  • Jesus did not address slavery at all in the Gospels; Saint Paul and Aristotle accepted it; and Jewish and Islamic theologians believed in mercy toward slaves but did not question slavery itself.†   (source)
  • And then strange things began to happen, for though she said little and was the chubby, round-fingered child still, I'd find her tucked in the arm of my chair reading the work of Aristotle or Boethius or a new novel just come over the Atlantic.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to go to a movie with him without getting involved afterwards in a discussion on empathy, Aristotle, universals, messages and the obligations of the cinema as an art form in a materialistic society.†   (source)
  • Finally, at the age of twenty-five, he abandoned his wife and child and after many hardships came to Berlin where he joined a group of philosophers, read Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant, and began to write philosophical books, it is astonishing how he was able to gobble up complicated philosophical treatises with such ease.†   (source)
  • You must see this slave, this black Aristotle, moving slowly, with sweet patience, with a patience not of mere man, but of God-inspired faith-see him moving slowly as he surmounts each and every opposition.†   (source)
  • What would Aristotle and Plato have said, if anyone had talked to them, of a federative republic of thirteen states, inhabiting a country of five hundred leagues in extent?†   (source)
  • This one advertised itself with names carved in the granite frieze above its broad front: HOMER, HERODOTUS, SOPHOCLES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, DEMOSTHENES, CICERO, VERGIL.†   (source)
  • It's bad enough that Jackie Kennedy is cavorting around the Mediterranean with Aristotle Onassis, a man whom the president does not trust.†   (source)
  • While I was writing a thesis on the influence-upon subsequent metaphysical systems-of Aristotle's theory of the Immovable Mover.†   (source)
  • Max heard several coughs echo in the cavernous space and grinned to see David sitting small and hunched at a table next to a statue of Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Of course, neither I nor anyone else can do it, but I can try, and to do so I have to know the theories of beauty from Aristotle's forward, and before I die I'm supposed to come up with one of my own.†   (source)
  • But he thought of Aristotle: pity and terror.†   (source)
  • Maybe Aristotle Onassis or George Soros.†   (source)
  • Music was placed in this category, and Aristotle speculated in his Politics as to the profit to be derived from it, finally conceding that music might conduce to virtue by making the body fit, promoting a certain ethos, and enabling us to enjoy things in me proper way, whatever that means.†   (source)
  • You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve.†   (source)
  • ALICE No. RICH The opinion of Aristotle is that mists are an exhalation of the earth whereas clouds NORFOLK He stooped five hundred feet!†   (source)
  • Clearly, Chuck Parson was no Aristotle when it came to logic.†   (source)
  • As best I know, Aristotle's opinion is that dialectic comes before everything else.†   (source)
  • And finally I'll tell you a little about Aristotle's view of man and society.†   (source)
  • "Giordano Bruno," Aristotle said, pointing at the blackened body.†   (source)
  • After reading Aristotle, she realized it was just as important to keep her ideas orderly.†   (source)
  • Aristotle is the eternal motorcycle mechanic who prefers the "many."†   (source)
  • "Such men are a public nuisance," Aristotle agreed.†   (source)
  • I certainly don't see Aristotle's works as a major source of either positive or negative values.†   (source)
  • Aristotle imagined the movement of the stars and the planets guiding all movement on Earth.†   (source)
  • Locke repeats Aristotle's words, and when Locke uses them, they are aimed at Descartes.†   (source)
  • Aristotle's book had begun with it, in a most mystifying way.†   (source)
  • There was nothing in his style to indicate that Aristotle was ever one to doubt Aristotle.†   (source)
  • So we can take our choice between believing Aristotle and believing the Bible?†   (source)
  • Thus Quality, in Aristotle's system, is totally divorced from rhetoric.†   (source)
  • He did this by entering the philosophy of Aristotle and taking him at his word.†   (source)
  • Aristotle was a meticulous organizer who set out to clarify our concepts.†   (source)
  • For page after page Aristotle went on like this.†   (source)
  • Aristotle thought Plato had turned the whole thing upside down.†   (source)
  • At the end of the hour he finally asked, "May questions about Aristotle's rhetoric be asked?†   (source)
  • His name was Aristotle, and he was the third great philosopher from Athens.†   (source)
  • We are here to learn what Aristotle thinks!†   (source)
  • He went on: "Unfortunately, Aquinas also adopted Aristotle's view of women.†   (source)
  • Rhetoric is an art, Aristotle began, because it can be reduced to a rational system of order.†   (source)
  • This Christian view was moreover in harmony with the teachings of Plato and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • What is even more important, one sees that the pieces are the basis of Aristotle's art of rhetoric.†   (source)
  • You have to admit that Aristotle's categories are clear and simple.†   (source)
  • Obviously they know a hundred times more about Plato and Aristotle than he ever will.†   (source)
  • Aristotle believed that there is a purpose behind everything in nature.†   (source)
  • This is also what we mean when we speak of the ethics of Socrates or Aristotle, for example.†   (source)
  • Then she punched holes in them and put them in the ring binder, before the chapter on Aristotle.†   (source)
  • The third good constitutional form is what Aristotle called polity, which means democracy.†   (source)
  • Some of the writings of Aristotle and Plato were known.†   (source)
  • Aristotle goes only part of the way because he didn't know of the Christian revelation.†   (source)
  • Records from antiquity refer to 170 titles supposedly written by Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Aristotle had a more organic view of natural processes than the mechanical materialists ….†   (source)
  • As I said earlier, Aristotle was concerned with the changes in nature.†   (source)
  • Aristotle describes three good forms of constitution.†   (source)
  • Aristotle held that there are three forms of happiness.†   (source)
  • Aristotle believed that this scale indicated a God that constituted a sort of maximum of existence.†   (source)
  • Views on Women Finally, let us look at Aristotle's views on women.†   (source)
  • Lying comfortably on her bed, she began to read about Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Aristotle did not deny that humans have innate reason.†   (source)
  • Aristotle held that Plato was thus "doubling the number of things."†   (source)
  • And that is really the essence of Aristotle's criticism of Plato's theory of ideas.†   (source)
  • Aristotle assigns the raindrops a life-task, or "purpose."†   (source)
  • But Aristotle held that there were different types of cause in nature.†   (source)
  • So Aristotle disagreed with Plato that the "idea" chicken came before the chicken.†   (source)
  • Now we are going to meet the three great classical philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • The last thing she did was to gather all the pages on Aristotle into a neat pile.†   (source)
  • Aquinas was among those who tried to make Aristotle's philosophy compatible with Christianity.†   (source)
  • Aristotle would have nodded in agreement.†   (source)
  • Plato was a poet and mythologist; Aristotle's writings were as dry and precise as an encyclopedia.†   (source)
  • Since Aristotle wrote on all the sciences, I will limit myself to some of the most important areas.†   (source)
  • Aristotle had inspired Sophie to clean up her own room.†   (source)
  • At the top of this "scale" is man—who according to Aristotle lives the whole life of nature.†   (source)
  • No new Plato or Aristotle appeared on the scene.†   (source)
  • We find a similar 'philosophical God' in the writings of Aristotle.†   (source)
  • He believed that he could prove God's existence on the basis of Aristotle's philosophy.†   (source)
  • By the same token, you cannot say that Platowas wrong and that Aristotle was right.†   (source)
  • This background already tells us something about Aristotle's philosophic project.†   (source)
  • While Plato used his reason, Aristotle used his senses as well.†   (source)
  • Aristotle held that Plato was thus "doubling the number of things."†   (source)
  • Aristotle wanted to do a thorough clearing up in nature's "room.†   (source)
  • Many of Aristotle's writings thus became known and were translated from Greek and Arabic into Latin.†   (source)
  • To be more precise: by "form" horse, Aristotle meant that which is common to all horses.†   (source)
  • Antiquity had its great system-constructors in Plato and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Not to mention Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Aristotle called this the "first mover," or "God."†   (source)
  • This was not so, but nobody could know Aristotle was wrong before it had been demonstrated.†   (source)
  • The same applies in human relationships, where Aristotle advocated the "Golden Mean."†   (source)
  • Aristotle was more inclined to believe that women were incomplete in some way.†   (source)
  • Aristotle wanted to do a thorough clearing up in nature's "room.†   (source)
  • Aristotle's father was a respected physician— and therefore a scientist.†   (source)
  • According to Aristotle, nonliving things can only change through external influence.†   (source)
  • The immutability of animal species was also one of the cornerstones of Aristotle's philosophy.†   (source)
  • Aristotle died in the year 322 B.C., at the time when Athens had lost its dominant role.†   (source)
  • When she read about Aristotle's view of women she was both irritated and disappointed.†   (source)
  • You may perhaps recall that Aristotle thought a woman was more or less an incomplete man.†   (source)
  • Aristotle was also from Macedonia, and for a time he was even the young Alexander's tutor.†   (source)
  • The classic formulation of an empirical approach came from Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Aristotle divides "living things" into two different categories.†   (source)
  • In the question of causality then, we are tempted to say that Aristotle was wrong.†   (source)
  • Perhaps worst of all, however, Aristotle Onassis is a known philanderer.†   (source)
  • MORE What was that of Aristotle's, Richard?†   (source)
  • NORFOLK (To RICH) I've never found much use in Aristotle myself, not practically.†   (source)
  • Aristotle, Larousse, and Diderot—those great encyclopedists who spent their lives segmenting, cataloging, and defining all manner of phenomena—would never have imagined that there were so many, and each one suited to a different purpose!†   (source)
  • As Aristotle grinned, he took out a silver Zippo lighter, flipped it in his hand in a complicated fashion, and then flicked it on.†   (source)
  • These were the people who had just run out of the pyramid: the pope, Galileo, Aristotle, and Leonardo.†   (source)
  • Aristotle was the first to speak.†   (source)
  • "This is Galileo," said Aristotle.†   (source)
  • If there were deeper meanings to Aristotle than met the eye this would be as good a place as any to make them visible.†   (source)
  • His attitude toward Aristotle was grossly unfair for the same reason Aristotle was unfair to his predecessors.†   (source)
  • I have since read Aristotle again, looking for the massive evil that appears in the fragments from Phaedrus, but have not found it there.†   (source)
  • First they are going to destroy his status dialectically in front of the class by showing how little he knows about Plato and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • People who can't stand the eternal lofty idealism of Plato welcome the down-to-earth facts of Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Did Aristotle really think his students would be better rhetoricians for having learned all these endless names and relationships?†   (source)
  • Under Aristotle the "Reader," whose knowledge of Trojan areté seems conspicuously absent, forms and substances dominate all.†   (source)
  • Aristotle fouled up what Phaedrus wanted to say by placing rhetoric in an outrageously minor category in his hierarchic order of things.†   (source)
  • No —let us say, Aristotle's opinion.†   (source)
  • Once that's established he can move down into enquiries of what reason is, and then, lo and behold, there we are in Aristotle's domain again!†   (source)
  • It was a branch of Practical Science, a kind of shirttail relation to the other category, Theoretical Science, which Aristotle was mainly involved in.†   (source)
  • Thus they had apparently been traveling in the same direction as Phaedrus but had somehow ended with Aristotle and stopped there.†   (source)
  • People who can't stand Aristotle's endless specificity of detail are natural lovers of Plato's soaring generalities.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus saw Aristotle as tremendously satisfied with this neat little stunt of naming and classifying everything.†   (source)
  • This duality of form and substance and the scientific method of arriving at facts about substances were central to Aristotle's philosophy.†   (source)
  • The only thing that was clear was that Aristotle was very much concerned about the relation of rhetoric to dialectic.†   (source)
  • When it is known that Plato put his own words in Socrates' mouth (Aristotle says this) there should be no reason to doubt that he could have put his own words into other mouths too.†   (source)
  • Aristotle said there is also the method of science, or "physical" method, which observes physical facts and arrives at truths about substances, which undergo change.†   (source)
  • Thus the dethronement of dialectic from what Socrates and Plato held it to be was absolutely essential for Aristotle, and "dialectic" was and still is a fulcrum word.†   (source)
  • Aristotle felt that the mortal horse of Appearance which ate grass and took people places and gave birth to little horses deserved far more attention than Plato was giving it.†   (source)
  • "Yes," says Phaedrus omnisciently, " — Aristotle — " The assistant chairman is shocked for a moment, then, almost like a culprit who has been discovered but feels no guilt, laughs loud and long.†   (source)
  • It was time Aristotle got his.†   (source)
  • And in Aristotle and the ancient Greeks he believed he had found the villains who had so shaped the mythos as to cause us to accept this insanity as reality.†   (source)
  • It was now absolutely necessary that he study as he had never studied before to learn the thought of Classic Greece in general and of one Classic Greek in particular…Aristotle.†   (source)
  • He points his finger at the student and demands, "According to Aristotle: What are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed?"†   (source)
  • He consistently harked back to St. Thomas Aquinas, who had taken Plato and Aristotle and made them part of his medieval synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian faith.†   (source)
  • This contempt for rhetoric, combined with Aristotle's own atrocious quality of rhetoric, so completely alienated Phaedrus he couldn't read anything Aristotle said without seeking ways to despise it and attack it.†   (source)
  • He'd been prepared to decode messages of great subtlety, systems of great complexity in order to understand the deeper inner meaning of Aristotle, claimed by many to be the greatest philosopher of all time.†   (source)
  • The sessions on Aristotle were round an enormous wooden round table in a dreary room across the street from a hospital, where the late-afternoon sun from over the hospital roof hardly penetrated the window dirt and polluted city air beyond.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus guessed that Aristotle's diminution of dialectic, from Plato's sole method of arriving at truth to a "counterpart of rhetoric," might be as infuriating to modern Platonists as it would have been to Plato.†   (source)
  • Aristotle attacked this belief, saying that the dialectic was only suitable for some purposes…to enquire into men's beliefs, to arrive at truths about eternal forms of things, known as Ideas, which were fixed and unchanging and constituted reality for Plato.†   (source)
  • Walk into any of a hundred thousand classrooms today and hear the teachers divide and subdivide and interrelate and establish "principles" and study "methods" and what you will hear is the ghost of Aristotle speaking down through the centuries…the desiccating lifeless voice of dualistic reason.†   (source)
  • The particular methods employing artificial proofs of the ethical kind involving good will require a knowledge of the emotions, and for those who have forgotten what these are, Aristotle provides a list.†   (source)
  • Aristotle has always been eminently attackable and eminently attacked throughout history, and shooting down Aristotle's patent absurdities, like shooting fish in a barrel, didn't afford much satisfaction.†   (source)
  • And today in those few Universities that bother to teach classic ethics anymore, students, following the lead of Aristotle and Plato, endlessly play around with the question that in ancient Greece never needed to be asked: "What is the Good?†   (source)
  • What I find in Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations, many of which seem impossible to justify in the light of modern knowledge, whose organization appears extremely poor, and which seems primitive in the way old Greek pottery in the museums seems primitive.†   (source)
  • His name was Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Do you recall, for ex-ample, how Aristotle described the progressive scale of life from plants and animals to humans?†   (source)
  • On the contrary, to Aristotle the "forms" were in the things, because they were the particular characteristics of these things.†   (source)
  • Aristotle pointed out that nothing exists in consciousness that has not first been experienced by the senses.†   (source)
  • Aristotle pointed out that nothing exists in consciousness that has not first been experienced by the senses.†   (source)
  • Aristotle thought the opposite: things that are in the human soul were purely reflections of natural objects.†   (source)
  • She sorted books, ring binders, magazines, and posters—exactly as the philosophy teacher had described in the chapter on Aristotle.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, it is precisely reason, according to Aristotle, that is man's most distinguishing characteristic.†   (source)
  • Aristotle's erroneous view of the sexes was doubly harmful because it was his—rather than Plato's—view that held sway throughout the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • Aristotle was not a native of Athens.†   (source)
  • Every change in nature, according to Aristotle, is a transformation of substance from the "potential" to the "actual."†   (source)
  • To Aristotle, the "idea" or the "form" horse was made up of the horse's characteristics—which define what we today call the horse species.†   (source)
  • According to Aristotle, Plato was trapped in a mythical world picture in which the human imagination was confused with the real world.†   (source)
  • Aristotle held that all our thoughts and ideas have come into our consciousness through what we have heard and seen.†   (source)
  • When Sophie had read the chapter on Aristotle one and a half times, she returned it to the brown envelope and remained sitting, staring into space.†   (source)
  • But if you stopped there, Aristotle would add that it rains because plants and animals need rainwater in order to grow.†   (source)
  • Aristotle thought that a projectile hurled obliquely into the air would first describe a gentle curve and then fall vertically to the earth.†   (source)
  • But Aristotle also took into account a similar "purpose" when considering the purely lifeless processes in nature.†   (source)
  • Having read about the natural philosophers and Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, you are now familiar with the foundations of European philosophy.†   (source)
  • Hilde had not known that it was Aristotle who had invented the game of "animal, vegetable, or mineral."†   (source)
  • Aristotle's philosophy also presumed the existence of a God—or a formal cause—which sets all natural processes going.†   (source)
  • The example demonstrates that Aristotle's logic was based on the correlation of terms, in this case "living creature" and "mortal."†   (source)
  • So when Aristotle shows us something our reason tells us is true, it is not in conflict with Christian teaching.†   (source)
  • Aristotle then emphasized that all three criteria must be present at the same time for man to find happiness and fulfillment.†   (source)
  • For one thing, it is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle.†   (source)
  • For example, the kind of truths Aristotle refers to when he describes the plant and the animal kingdom.†   (source)
  • I shall now tell you about the long period frm Aristotle near the end of the fourth century B.C. right up to the early Middle Ages around A.D. 400.†   (source)
  • Similarly Aristotle believed that everything in nature has the potentiality of realizing, or achieving, a specific "form."†   (source)
  • But Aquinas's point was that there need not be any conflict between a philosopher like Aristotle and the Christian doctrine.†   (source)
  • Doesn't that remind you of Aristotle?†   (source)
  • Aristotle did the opposite: he got down on all fours and studied frogs and fish, anemones and poppies.†   (source)
  • She no longer had difficulty in distinguishing Democritus and Socrates, or Plato and Aristotle, from each other.†   (source)
  • Politics The undesirability of cultivating extremes is also expressed in Aristotle's view of society.†   (source)
  • Aristotle did not believe in the existence of any such molds or forms that, as it were, lay on their own shelf beyond the natural world.†   (source)
  • Others, like Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, decided that there must be a God because every-thing must have a first cause.†   (source)
  • It was equally apparent to Aristotle that the highest degree of reality is that which we perceive with our senses.†   (source)
  • Aristotle, on the other hand, was preoccupied with just these changes—or with what we nowadays describe as natural processes.†   (source)
  • Logic The distinction between "form" and "substance" plays an important part in Aristotle's explanation of the way we discern things in the world.†   (source)
  • The Middle Ages had St. Thomas Aquinas, who tried to build a bridge between Aristotle's philosophy and Christian theology.†   (source)
  • Now that I have told you such a lot about Plato, you must start by hearing how Aristotle refuted Plato's theory of ideas.†   (source)
  • As I have said, Hellenistic philosophy continued to work with the problems raised by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • From time to time Aristotle reminds us that there must be a God who started all movement in the natural world.†   (source)
  • According to Aristotle, man's "form" comprises a soul, which has a plant-like part, an animal part, and a rational part.†   (source)
  • The significance of Aristotle in European culture is due not least to the fact that he created the terminology that scientists use today.†   (source)
  • When Aristotle talks about the "substance" and "form" of things, he does not only refer to living organisms.†   (source)
  • Aristotle…a meticulous organizer who wanted to clarify our concepts While her mother was taking her afternoon nap, Sophie went down to the den.†   (source)
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