Aristotle and Plato on Friendship
In The Form of Politics, John von Heyking directs his readers to the critical importance of friendship in the political thought of Aristotle and Plato. The title…
In The Form of Politics, John von Heyking directs his readers to the critical importance of friendship in the political thought of Aristotle and Plato. The title…
I’d like to take a road trip with John von Heyking. I don’t know if he and I could ever achieve that rare gem which is friendship,…
John von Heyking’s analysis of friendship in The Form of Politics centers on the Greek concept of sunaisthesis, the triangle of perception and recognition that occurs when…
The Italian philosopher and statesman, Benedetto Croce, once wrote that, “politics and filth are so frequently identified in the ordinary conversation of people that the thoughtful person…
Aristotle (385-322 B.C.) writes in the Nicomachean Ethics that the end of politics is to engender “a certain character in the citizens and to make them good…
America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class. Leslie G. Rubin. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018. Today the middle class in the United States…
What I have been proposing so far has been a paradigm for the multiversity to adopt for its students, faculty, and administrators: to pursue truth instead of…
In my last essay I wrote about how Plato could provide us a paradigm of periagoge and the methodology of dialectics for the multiversity, shifting students, faculty,…
Things Turned into Sounds: Aristotle The first voice we ought to listen to is that of Aristotle. At the beginning of his text Peri hermeneias (On Interpretation)…
Any student of Aristotle’s thought will be familiar with his various definitions of human nature: in the Politics he tells us “man is by nature a political…
Reflections on Aristotle’s Politics. Mogens Herman Hansen, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2013. Reflections on Aristotle’s Politics is another innovative and interesting work by Mogens Herman Hansen…
Aristotle on the Nature of Community. Adriel M. Trott. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Adriel M. Trott’s Aristotle on the Nature of the Community examines…
No one is obliged to take part in the spiritual crises of society; on the contrary, everyone is obliged to avoid the folly and live his life…
Sic enim est dispositio rerum in veritate, sicut in esse. - Saint Thomas, Contra Gentiles History: Truth and Being The work of Saint Thomas (1225-1274) absorbed…
Introduction This past spring, the death of Lee Kuan Yew marked the loss of one of the world’s most successful politicians. The former leader transformed Singapore from…