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Aristotle for all? The work of Walter Mooney Hatch

The Journal of Classics Teaching
This article considers the publication in 1879 of the Moral Philosophy of Aristotle, a book aimed at Oxford University undergraduates studying for the Classics degree course known as Literae Humaniores. This book is of contemporary interest.
Alan Towey
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Einstein contra Aristotle: the sound from the heavens [PDF]

Physics Essays 30 (3), 279 (2017), 2016
In "On the Heavens" Aristotle criticizes the Pythagorean point of view which claims the existence of a cosmic music and a cosmic sound. According to the Pythagorean argument, there exists a cosmic music produced by stars and planets. These celestial bodies generate sound in its movements, and the music appears due to the cosmic harmony.
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Swift J1644+57: An Ultra-Luminous X-ray Event [PDF]

, 2011
The photon spectral energy distribution of the powerful transient Sw J1644+57 resembles those of the brightest Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources (ULXs). The transient nature of Sw J1644+57 is likely the result of a tidal disruption of a star by a super-massive black hole.
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Is Aristotle's place really a surface? On Aristotle's concept of place in Physics IV and Categories 6 [PDF]

, 2018
The attribution to Aristotle of the concept of place as bi-dimensional is firstly based on the identification of place with a surface, supposedly carried out by Aristotle in Physics IV.
Salis, RITA MARIA GAVINA
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Ghodamebne Jafar and the Significance of his Notions and Works in the Interpretation and Iranian-Islamic [PDF]

Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2009
Among current methods of literary interpretation in Iranian-Islamic culture, logical interpretation has been one of the most important and widespread methods of literary interpretation.
mehdi mahabati
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Human Energy: Philosophical-Anthropological Presuppositions of Anthropogenic Energy, Movement, and Activity and their Implications for Well-being

Relations, 2018
In this paper I focus on rather neglected considerations regarding human energy, movement, and activity, instead of joining the well-developed discourse on sustainable electricity production and moderate energy consumption. Thereby the paper elucidates a 
Roman Meinhold
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Aristotle’s Material Reductionist Account of History of Philosophy [PDF]

S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2023
Aristotle's Material Reductionist Account of History of Philosophy In his account of the flux of ideas, Aristotle searches the models of his predecessors to find an alternative cause for this; and he finds none.
Giouli, Virginia M.
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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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Conditions for the sustainability of democracy according to Aristotle

Social Development & Security, 2023
Purpose: to present the national security environment from the perspective of the main assumptions formulated by Aristotle. This was he, who examined 158 constitutions of states, and he also undertook the work of describing the known regimes in detail ...
Jacek Mrozek, Piotr Gawliczek
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Scientific Knowledge in Aristotle’s Biology [PDF]

, 2015
Aristotle was the first thinker to articulate a taxonomy of scientific knowledge, which he set out in Posterior Analytics. Furthermore, the “special sciences”, i.e., biology, zoology and the natural sciences in general, originated with Aristotle.
Botter, Barbara
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