Download or read book Physiological Theory and the Doctrine of the Mean in Plato and Aristotle written by Theodore James Tracy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psyche and Soma written by John P. Wright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the history of understanding of the human mind or soul and its relationship to the body, through the course of more than two thousand years. Thirteen specially commissioned chapters, each written by a recognized expert, discuss such figures as the doctors Hippocrates and Galen, the theologians St Paul, Augustine, and Aquinas, and philosophers from Plato to Leibniz.
Download or read book Aristotelous Peri Psych s written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aristotle s Doctrine of the Mean written by J. O. Urmson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plotinus Psychology written by H.J. Blumenthal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a revised version, with some omissions, of a Cambridge doctoral dissertation submitted in 1963: I fear that it still bears marks of its origins. The dissertation itself was the result of an earlier scheme to identify the sources of Plotinus' psychological doctrines. In the course of this work it soon became evident that it was not sufficient1y clear what these doctrines were. Students of Plotinus have tended to concentrate on the higher regions of his world, and there is still no satisfactory treatment of his doctrines of the embodied soul. It is the purpose of this book to provide a fairly extensive survey of these doctrines. It does not claim to be exhaustive. Nor does it claim to add a large body of new knowledge, since over so wide a field many points have been touched on by others, if only in passing. But I hope that it may remove some misconceptions, and bring the details of Plotinus' theories into sharper focus. It had been my intention to add an introduction - mainly for the benefit of non-specialist readers - on the psychology of Plotinus' predecessors. In the meantime the Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy has appeared, and the reader who wants information on this subject may convenient1y be referred to the relevant parts of the late Professor Merlan's chapters on the predeces sors of Plotinus.
Download or read book Supplementary Volume written by Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book De Anima On the Soul written by Aristotle and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the emerging sciences of logic and biology. His examination of the huge variety of living organisms - the enormous range of their behaviour, their powers and their perceptual sophistication - convinced him of the inadequacy both of a materialist reduction and of a Platonic sublimation of the soul. In De Anima, he sought to set out his theory of the soul as the ultimate reality of embodied form and produced both a masterpiece of philosophical insight and a psychology of perennially fascinating subtlety.
Download or read book Aristotle s Doctrine that Virtue is a mean written by William Francis Ross Hardie and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soul Body Problem in Plato and Aristotle written by Diego Zucca and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critique of Aristotle s Doctrine of the Mean written by Edwin A. Katterhenry and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Legacy of Plato and Aristotle written by R.K. Mishra, M.A and published by B K PUBLICATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED. This book was released on 2024-07-07 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political legacy of Plato and Aristotle is one of the greatest intellectual legacies left by an ancient civilisation for posterity. The problems of politics and political science are incomprehensible without some Platonic and Aristotelian background. Modern political philosophy is nothing but a commentary on the political ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Without a Platonic and Aristotelian background, even the first letter of politics cannot be understood. For, very little, if at all, has been said that is new after Plato and Aristotle in the history of political thought. This book deals with the political ideas of Plato and Aristotle from a near and most modern angle. The chapters have been selected methodically so that a comparative study of the two philosophers becomes easy for students. The occasional comparison of the philosophers’ ideas with that of Marx, Laski, Nehru, and with ancient Indian concepts is certainly interesting.
Download or read book Aristotle s Doctrine of the Mean written by Misung Jang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACTVirtue, the core component of Aristotelian happiness (eudaimonia), is a mean. For Aristotle, happiness, literally meaning "living well and doing well," is the ultimate end. Aristotle defines happiness as "something complete and self-sufficient, since it is the end of the things achievable in action ... it is a certain sort of activity of the soul in accordance with virtue," and he then defines virtue as "a state concerned with choice, consisting in a mean state relative to us, a mean state determined by reason (logos), by which the person of practical wisdom would determine it." (NE1106a36-1107a2) Therefore, the mean is a significant concept in Aristotle's ethics. If we understand this concept better, we shall be able to understand his ethics better. The doctrine of the mean, central as it is, has given rise to numerous debates. It is often overlooked or underappreciated, by Aristotle scholars and virtue ethicists alike.^However, it must be unsatisfying for any philosopher who is interested in virtue ethics to appeal to an Aristotelian account of virtue on the one hand, but reject an essential piece of this theory on the other. The current situation with regard to the mean is chaotic, to say the least. In my diagnosis, there are so many debates because the study of the mean has been piecemeal; so far there has been no rigorous, in depth study of the doctrine of the mean in Aristotle. This following work is intended to fill the gap by providing an overall examination of the theory and a consideration of the debates within a larger context. This dissertation shall provide a systematic analysis of the concept of the mean--an analysis which is necessary for answering the main question of Aristotle's ethics: "how should we live?" The goal of Aristotle's ethical project "is not to know what virtue is, but to become good, since otherwise the inquiry would be of no benefit to us" (NE II.2).^The good life is a life of virtuous activity, and he strongly believes this life could not be possible without mean states we acquire. To become a virtuous person, one must attain the mean state--a state determined by practical wisdom rather than by following absolute moral rules--with regard to all of the various feelings and actions one encounters in daily life. Attaining this state is the goal of studying ethics. According to the doctrine of the mean, virtue is the mean state toward good activities, and a virtuous person behaves appropriately out of his mean state. This dissertation takes on four tasks: (1) Taking a historical approach, I consider the concept of the mean before Aristotle. The concept of the mean is not Aristotle's own invention, but has a long tradition. It is Aristotle's innovation, however, to draw the distinction between an arithmetical notion and an ethical mean. (2) I offer a systematic examination, focusing especially on NE II, 2, 5, and 6.^I examine the doctrine of the mean from the following four aspects - (i) mean state, (ii) mean in feelings and actions, (iii) mean relative to us, and (iv) practical wisdom. (3) I give an explanation of how the doctrine of the mean works with regard to particular virtues. Aristotle wants to apply the doctrine of the mean to each virtue; is he successful? By examining the mean for individual virtues like courage, temperance, and justice, I hope to achieve a better understanding of what the mean is.(4) I explore the impact of Aristotle's doctrine of the mean by comparing it with Confucius' doctrine of the mean. This points us in the direction of future debates. Key Words: Aristotle's doctrine of the mean * Virtue * Mean state * Practical wisdom * Confucian mean.
Download or read book Political Legacy of Plato and Aristotle written by R. K. Misra and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Justice Law and Method in Plato and Aristotle written by Spiro Panagiotou and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aristotle s Equity and the Doctrine of the Mean written by Ioannes Triantaphyllopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1989* with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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