For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. We love our friends not just because we like each other or are useful to each other, but because we share the same values and ideals for our society, and come together to advance those ideals.
Jules EvansMots clés friendship philosophy aristotle
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.
Michel de CerteauAristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.
Janet M. TavakoliMots clés memory logic aristotle archangels-rise-of-the-jesuits
My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Mots clés metaphysics plato aristotle philosophy-of-religion philosophical-reflection r-alan-woods
I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as easily as with the partridge which, Aristotle says, needs only to hear the voice of the cock or its flight overhead - to assume that at the mere sound of the word 'concealment' everyone can easily shake a dozen romances and comedies from his sleeve.
Søren KierkegaardMots clés courtesy aristotle concealment aesthetically-voluptuous-age partridge-and-cock
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
AristotleMots clés politics society political aristotle
He was not only the last of the great Greek philosophers, he was Europe's first great biologist.
Jostein GaarderMots clés aristotle
If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community.
'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end.
Mots clés politics justice aristotle polis
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
AristotleMots clés ethics philosophy aristotle ancient-philosophy limits-of-philosophy
This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.
Fulton J. SheenMots clés aristotle
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