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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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Essence and Cause: Making Something Be What It Is [PDF]
, 1970 Aristotle frequently describes essence as a “cause” or “explanation”, thus ascribing to essence some sort of causal or explanatory role. This explanatory role is often explicated by scholars in terms of essence “making the thing be what it is” or “making
João M. F. DE CAMARGO, M. L. S. MELLO
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae TheologicaWhy 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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Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philosophica et Historica, 2020 The essay is dedicated to the end of art topic from the perspective of one of the most important Anglo-American philosophers Arthur Danto. The first part is devoted to Danto’s end of art thesis that reinterprets Hegel’s prediction that art will end in ...
Eva Drexlerová
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The Classical Quarterly, 1992 There are two main types of question which arise from Aristotle's treatment of democracy, as from all other major topics which we find in that part of the Politics which is related to empirical data about political behaviour (Books 2–6 in O.C.T.). One type is primarily philosophical: ‘Is Aristotle's analysis logically coherent, is it consistent with ...
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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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Running and the Paradox of Suffering
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2022 What motivates the voluntary suffering of training for a long-distance run – or any other difficult athletic skill? Long-term pleasure cannot adequately explain this seemingly masochistic activity.
Ralph D. Ellis
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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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Heart in the work of the eminent Greek philosopher and physician Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2020 Aristotle (384-322 BC), the founder of the peripatetic sect of philosophers was a polymath and his work covers almost every major area of human inquiry such as physics, biology, metaphysics, ethics, rhetoric and politics. However, it seems that he had an
Christos TSAGKARIS +4 more
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