Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Aristotle thinks that happiness is an activity – it consists in doing something – rather than a feeling. It is the best activity of which ...

Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a ...

Stratification theories layer the natural world from the inanimate to the animate to the animal to the human. They used to be ...

Many of the sayings we use daily were first coined by Aristotle (384-BC – 322 BC). His studies in living the Good Life (nothing to do with Felicity Kendall looking seductive in dungarees and ...

The great Greek philosopher, Aristotle, was one of the first. He thought that slavery was a natural thing and that human beings came in two types - slaves and non-slaves. For that some should rule ...

who traces Western concepts of the gift back to Aristotle's distinction between the agora and the oikos, and John Frow, who explores the interdependence of gifts and commodities. Nevertheless, most ...

Cicero In ancient Athens the philosopher Plato and his pupil Aristotle considered the question of how human beings should act. Both started by reflecting on the meaning of "goodness". For Plato an ...

Trump’s speeches may seem rambling and incoherent, his ‘weave’ is actually part of a carefully constructed narrative.

But a playwright must figure out what story he’d like to pull out of the mass of real-life material. Goldstein opts for the ...

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The temptation of pessimism is real. In the face of what feels like an endless war and an onslaught of propaganda, it is ...

Aristotle might set the bar too high. If only the most virtuous should try to love ... Many psychologists claim self-love is important for adopting the kind and compassionate self-perception crucial ...