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The Dispute over Delayed Animation: When Does a Human Being Begin?

Studia Gilsoniana, 2020
The dispute over delayed animation, although it has its beginnings already in ancient philosophy and culture, started for good only in contemporary times when the right to kill unborn children (so-called abortion) entered the canon of constitutional law ...
Andrzej Maryniarczyk
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II—Resemblance Nominalism, Conjunctions and Truthmakers [PDF]

, 2013
The resemblance nominalist says that the truthmaker of 〈Socrates is white〉 ultimately involves only concrete particulars that resemble each other. Furthermore he also says that Socrates and Plato are the truthmakers of 〈Socrates resembles Plato〉, and ...
Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo
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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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Acting Through Inaction: The Distinction Between Leisure and Reverie in Jacques Rancière’s Conception of Emancipation

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2019
The classical distinction between leisure and work is often used to define features of the emancipated life. In Aristotle leisure is defined as time devoted to purposeful activity, and distinguished from the labour time expended merely to produce life’s ...
Alison Ross
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Aristotle' Relations: An Interpretation in Combinatory Logic [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
The usual modelling of the syllogisms of the Organon by a calculus of classes does not include relations. Aristotle may however have envisioned them in the first two books as the category of relatives, where he allowed them to compose with themselves. Composition is the main operation in combinatory logic, which therefore offers itself for a new kind ...
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MENCIUS\u27 JUN-ZI, ARISTOTLE\u27S MEGALOPSUCHOS, & MORAL DEMANDS TO HELP THE GLOBAL POOR [PDF]

, 2012
It is commonly believed that impartial utilitarian moral theories have significant demands that we help the global poor, and that the partial virtue ethics of Mencius and Aristotle do not.
Walsh, Sean
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A Blood Supply Pathophysiological Microcirculatory Mechanism for Long COVID

Life
Background: The term “Long COVID” is commonly used to describe persisting symptoms after acute COVID-19. Until now, proposed mechanisms for the explanation of Long COVID have not related quantitative measurements to basic laws.
Aristotle G. Koutsiaris
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Glosse Categoriarum. Un commento anonimo del XII sec. alle Categorie

Noctua, 2016
This work aims to a critical edition of an Aristotle’s Categories commentary, transmitted by M2 codex of St. Ambrose’s Chapter Archive in Milan. Written in Northern Italy, in the 12th century, it was probably a handbook for Chapter School.
Marco Sirtoli
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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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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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