Though he intends to go to Athens, Aristotle's plans change when he stops in the Macedonian capital of Pella to visit its king and his boyhood friend, Philip, who asks him to stay and help educate his son, Alexander. Though most of the book focuses on Aristotle's time in Pella, it is interspersed with scenes from his boyhood in the town of Stageira and his student years in Athens. And though the novel is grounded in historical sources, [Annabel Lyon] has no problem taking liberties with the record. Whether or not this stinging indictment invalidates Aristotle's ideas is a question best left to the philosophers. But for those looking for the human side of Aristotle's life and thought, The Golden Mean is a touching work of historical imagination.
... difficulty finding his place amid the political intrigues of the royal court. His relationships wi...
... patterns of behaviour among independent political units, whether they are city-states, empires, or n...He goes back to Plato, Aristotle, and Thucydides to identify the universals of the ...It resembles more a philosophy of action in the world of separateness, showing ho...
... it elucidates a more complex set of political values which in turn, complicate our understanding... has its roots in classical political philosophy and figures prominently in discussions regarding t.... (9) See e.g. Aristotle. The Politics, trans, by Ernest Barker, Book III (...
Friendship is a frequently-used word but it is difficult to define it clearly. Friendship in its various configurations links people and communities together in some sort of reciprocally beneficial association that forms societies. Thus friendship is a concept that deserves attention. This paper examines some of the similarities and differences about understandings of friendship which both support and challenge traditional western perspectives. The article argues that an exploration of the experiences and interpretations of friendship outside the western philosophical tradition demonstrates a shared understanding about many aspects, but also some subtle differences which, while challenging some of the western concepts, can also be incorporated into developments of the idea of friendship.
... no friend' attributed to Montaigne via Aristotle, has been used as a motif by the French philosophe..., cultural exchanges, business contacts, political alliances and legal communications. Friendship in ... largely ignored within post-Cartesian philosophy'.3. Parakh (1994) acknowledges that Indian thinkin...
...Aristotle, in the Nicomachean Ethics, Book III, 1110a (trans... and will of others (see Hegel, Philosophy of Right (trans. Knox, 1952), at pp. 226-27) suppo... of society's resources is a political process that must be accomplished by a distributiv...
... 2500-year-old discipline with roots in Aristotle, Plato and Cicero. Rhetoricians study the way we u... linguist George Lakoff argues that political metaphors in North America have tended to cluster ... depicts the central figures a! Greek philosophy. . Along with grammar and logic, rhetoric was cons...
A critique was made in this essay about William G. Huitt's ( 2004) article titled "Moral and Character Development". The strong points of his article were discussed with his conclusion that social and cultural values influence the formation of children's character traits, while school should play its own role as a sub-social unit to develop their characters and morality based on the cognitive, affective, conative and behavioral principles. The obvious weakness was presented by ignoring politics to be a vital factor influencing moral development. This essay aims to discuss why moral principles can be taught in school and how moral education can be practiced in classroom. It proposes what approaches are supposed to be significantly effective.
... and debate on moral development back to Aristotle and Socrates' time. The American influential philo... country depends on the human, social, political or spiritual aspects rather than economic success.... failure is connected with the issue of philosophy since he expressed that any framework without phil...
... condition of others in the social and political setting in which the question arises. However, he ... Law Reform Commission expressed this philosophy appropriately in its Working Paper 28, Euthanasia,... the view first propounded by Plato and Aristotle that suicide was "an offence against the gods or t...
... ancient Greeks, especially Plato and Aristotle. Ancient Greek and then Latin culture were hotbeds...As one political philosophy, Marxism has been responsible, historians believe,...
... Public Justification in The Political Relation Public Justification in Juridical Relatio... be one properly informed about the philosophy of the legislative provisions, Charter values and .... (74) Aristotle identified justice in general with equality, but r...
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