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Does Aristotle have a dialectical attitude in EE I 6: a negative answer [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper, I analyse EE I 6, where Aristotle presented a famous methodological digression. Many interpreters have taken this chapter as advocating a dialectical procedure of enquiry.
Mendonça, Fernando Martins
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The role of reason in the establishment of practical goals. A dialogue with some interpretations of Aristotle

Estudios de Filosofía, 2022
There is a current debate about the interpretation of the Aristotelian theory of action concerning the role of reason in the establishment of practical ends, given that in some passages Aristotle assigns to character the role of establishing ends, and in
Laura Gómez
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A Comparative Study of the Place of God According to Ibnsina and Suarez with Regard to the Subject of Metaphysics [PDF]

Comparative Theology, 2020
One of the most important issues facing medieval philosophers and theologians, both Islamic and Christian, is the position of God in relation to the metaphysical subject raised by Aristotle.
Asghar Fathi Emadabadi, Ali Karbasizadeh, Said Binay Motlagh   +2 more
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Aristotle on natural slavery [PDF]

, 2008
Aristotle's claim that natural slaves do not possess autonomous rationality (Pol. 1.5, 1254b20-23) cannot plausibly be interpreted in an unrestricted sense, since this would conflict with what Aristotle knew about non-Greek societies.
Heath, M.
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What Money Is and Ought To Be

Journal of Social Ontology, 2021
Teleological thinking about money reasons from what money is for to both how it ought to be used and what forms it should take. One type, found in Aristotle’s argument against usury, takes teleological considerations alone to decisively settle normative ...
Dick David G.
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On Justice as Dance

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2022
This article is part of a larger project that explores how to channel people’s passion for popular arts into legal social justice by reconceiving law as a kind of poetry and justice as dance, and exploring different possible relationships between said ...
Joshua Hall
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The Evolution of Rhetorical Theory from Greece to Rome: The Similarities and Differences of Aristotle’s Theory of Rhetoric and that of Romans [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2018
In the current article, the history of rhetoric from 400 B.C. to 100 A.D. is reviewed. During this 500 years, the theoretical basis of classical rhetoric was established and has remained almost the same throughout the centuries.
Mohammad Ahmadi
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Are Potency and Actuality Compatible in Aristotle? [PDF]

, 2018
The belief that Aristotle opposes potency (dunamis) to actuality (energeia or entelecheia) has gone untested. This essay defines and distinguishes forms of the Opposition Hypothesis—the Actualization, Privation, and Modal—examining the texts and ...
Sentesy, Mark
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Aristotle on Geometrical Potentialities [PDF]

, 2021
This paper examines Aristotle's discussion of the priority of actuality to potentiality in geometry at Metaphysics Θ9, 1051a21–33. Many scholars have assumed what I call the "geometrical construction" interpretation, according to which his point here ...
Iwata, Naoya
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Truth-Telling and Hope

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica
Why else would one speak the truth if not out of and for hope? This hope is, indeed, a passion ‘for the possible’ and in Christian anthropology, this possible has something to do with eschatological flourishing that has already been inaugurated and which
Aristotle Papanikolaou
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