What a fun fascinating #Smithsonian article on how and why #literature moves us.
From #Aristotle to now, 8 literary devices/tools explained from a #neuroscience perspective
#bookstodon #books #writing #CognitiveScience
I'd be interested in hearing what my #author friends (and everyone else) think of it :-)
#Aristotle named five interlinked Noble Sciences which together make up #Philosophy.
- #Metaphysics: the study of existence, the nature of the universe and all its contents
- #Logic: the ways we may know something, the set of permissible conclusions we may draw based on our perceptions, and some sensible rules of deduction and inference
- #Ethics: what we know about man and what we may deduce and infer (through Logic) about acceptable interactions between pairs of individuals
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“Most people do not do, but take refuge in theory and talk, thinking that they will become good in this way.”
#Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
A Captivating Journey Through Psychiatry, Philosophy, and Psychology
#Psychiatry #Philosophy #Psychology #MentalHealth #Hippocrates #Plato #Aristotle #Stoicism #Epicurus #Sociology #Durkheim #Marx #Weber #Ethics #PhilosophicalCounseling #HistoryOfThought #MindAndBody #HumanExperience #CriticalThinking #PhilosophyOfMind #MentalWellBeing
Exploring the Mind: An Enchanting Journey Through Psychiatry, Philosophy, and Psychology
#Psychiatry #Philosophy #Psychology #HistoryOfThought #Hippocrates #Plato #Aristotle #Stoicism #Epicureanism #Sociology #Ethics #PhilosophicalCounseling #Mind #HumanExperience #MentalHealth #IntellectualJourney #CulturalTapestry
Useless quote for 31 Mar:
"… to be happy takes a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy."
~ Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics" (c. 335 BCE-322 BCE), 1098a.1 (trans. H. Rackham, 1934)
Link to source:
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0054
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/making-wise-decisions-learning-from-aristotle-bent-flyvbjerg
Cracking interview and discussion there on wise decisions and, really, the superiority of Aristotle’s situational ethics and character based on social feedback versus the modern emphasis on applying general principles absolutely or falling into moral relativism.
#Aristotle #Dreyfus #Flyvbyerg #philosophy
Now in HTML
Pathos and Logos:
Martin #Heidegger on the Primacy of Affection in #Aristotle’s Ontology of Human Being
by Walter Brogan
https://www.beyng.com/papers/Gatherings2024-06Brogan.html
“Righteous indignation is a mean between envy and spite, and these states are concerned with the pain and pleasure that are felt at the fortunes of our neighbours; the man who is characterized by righteous indignation is pained at undeserved good fortune, the envious man, going beyond him, is pained at all good
fortune, and the spiteful man falls so far short of being pained that he even rejoices.”
Undeserved good fortune of others *should* pain us.
Nicomachean Ethics, #Aristotle #philosophy
Happiness is a quality of the soul…not a function of one’s material circumstances
— Aristotle
I wrote on particulars, universals, and alternating between the two https://www.bryankam.com/p/from-will-to-representation-and-back?r=447n8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false #Aristotle #Schopenhauer #philosophy #logic @philosophy
**Aristotle by George Grote**
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_“Aristotle” by George Grote is a scholarly treatise written in the late 19th century. This work provides a comprehensive account of Aristotle's life, philosophy, and influence, focusing particularly on his ethical and political theories._
_Read now or download (free!)_
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45851
#ProjectGutenberg #Read #Ebook #Bookstodon #Philosophy #Aristotle #Free #Download @bookstodon @philosophy
“Actions are called just [..] when they are such as the just [..] man would do; [..] without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.
But most people do not do these, [..], behaving like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do. As the latter will not be made well in body by such [..] a treatment, [philosophers] will not be made well in soul by such a course of philosophy”
Nicomachean Ethics, #Aristotle #philosophy
Did #Heraclitus say that you can't step into the same river twice? The answer may shock you!
“The same is true of appetites and feelings of anger; some men become temperate and good-tempered, others self-indulgent and irascible, by behaving in one way or the other in the appropriate circumstances. […] states arise out of like activities.[…]. It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or of another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference.”
Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle.
#philosophy #Aristotle
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
“Now many events happen by chance, and events differing in importance; … a multitude of great events if they turn out well will make life more blessed …, while if they turn out ill they crush and maim blessedness; for they both bring pain with them and hinder many activities. Yet even in these nobility shines through, when a man bears with resignation many great misfortunes, not through insensibility to pain but through nobility and greatness of soul.”
Nicomachean Ethics, #Aristotle #philosophy
In a democracy the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them and the will of the majority is supreme. ~ #Aristotle #quotes #democracy. Hmm, how's this working out 2 millennia on? 
Did you know that the quote:
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
... was NOT uttered by #Aristotle?
This quote is a summary of Aristotle by Will Durant in his work 'The #History of #Philosophy' (1926).
What Aristotle actually said was:
"These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions; but no one, if he should leave them undone, would be even in the way to become a good man."
The quote is, therefore, about being virtuous, not diligent.
For of course it is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
[οὐ γὰρ ἴσως ταὐτὸν ἀνδρί τ᾽ ἀγαθῷ εἶναι καὶ πολίτῃ παντί.]
Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher
Nicomachean Ethics [Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια], Book 5, ch. 2 (5.2.11) / 1130b.29 (c. 325 BC) [tr. Thomson (1953)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/aristotle/74914/
