I am pleased to announce the formation of a new group for slow readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates. The discussion leader will be Angela Cembrola who has...
I will be away from internet access from August 10 until August 17 (I will be vacationing in a cottage on the shore of the Black Sea in Sarpi -- about 130 km....
This invitation pertains to two different groups. One is the plato-phaedo list, the other is a list called philosophy2. Both are groups that existed in the...
"EVERY art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason (dio) the good has rightly been...
"EVERY art (technę) and every inquiry (methodos), and similarly every action (praxis) and pursuit (proairesis) , is thought to (dokei) aim at some good; and...
"But a certain difference is found among ends (telôn); some are activities (energeiai), others are products (erga) apart from the activities that produce...
... "Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good;" So Aquinas understands pure activities as actions,...
... And among the technę, he distinguishes those done for themselves (music) and those done to produce an object. Cf. Aristotle's start: "Every art and every...
[3] But as there are numerous pursuits (praxis) and arts (technę) and sciences (epitstęmę) , it follows that their ends are correspondingly numerous: for...
You open another interesting discussion, Thomas. There are many times when I'm not bothered by things that should bother me. I've never been bothered by the...
R. Lloyd Mitchell
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Dec 5, 2003 7:23 pm
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I tend to agree with the direction of Lloyd Mitchell. Aristotle seems deliberately vague as to whether there must be a one, ultimate good in order to use the...
ed sarkis
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Dec 5, 2003 8:23 pm
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... De : "Thomas" ... to ... Just correcting myself here, making a bridle would not be a "potential" (dunamis) but rather an "action" (energeia). It is rather...
... order ... motivations- ... Yes, this could also be an iconoclastic inital shot at the so abstract and ultimate Form of the Good of Plato's dialogues. ...
"If therefore among the ends at which our actions (prakta) aim there be one which we will for its own sake, while we will the others only for the sake of this,...
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ed sarkis
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Dec 7, 2003 8:32 pm
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... De : "ed sarkis" ... Well it seems that Aquinas clarifies Aristotle here, because Aristotle mentions premise 2 before 1. It is possible that the NE are...
Are you inquiring whether Aquinas gets Aristotle right? What seems important to Aristotle is that ethics is based on how we achieve happiness. And that ...
ed sarkis
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Dec 7, 2003 9:47 pm
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... where happiness, eudaimonia, is also translatable as 'the good life' which sort of throws the rest of the point for a spin......
What's the spin? The end of action is the object itself. Our happiness is choosing goals that are fulfilling in themselves, not just for the sake of something...
ed sarkis
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Dec 8, 2003 8:12 pm
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the end of any action is not an object, it is a change of state, which may or may not yield an object, in ethical terms that can be excellent to vicious , if...
"...clearly this must be the good and the chief good. Will not the knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a...
... [1140b] (1) and inasmuch as one cannot deliberate about things that are of necessity, it follows that Prudence is not the same as Science. Nor can it be...
For even if the end is the same for a single man and for a state, that of the state seems at all events something greater and more complete whether to attain...
Our discussion will be adequate if it has as much clearness as the subject-matter admits of, for precision is not to be sought for alike in all discussions,...
... De : "jeremy hunsinger" ... in Greek politikę, also translated as: political science (Irwin, Rackham) political expertise (Rowe) I find Rowe's translation...
Would not be so sure that Nietzsche claims all ethics is just opinion and convention.He seems to argue that there is such a thing as natural leaders, and...
ed sarkis
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Dec 22, 2003 9:02 pm
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And goods also give rise to a similar fluctuation because they bring harm to many people; for before now men have been undone by reason of their wealth, and...
In case somebody wants to have a go at this, I'm posting Aquinas' full commentary on this passage, here the doctor angelicus is well beyond my modest...
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