#Aristotle

Author: Julian Baggini / Source: Big Think Our culture has its own mistaken assumption: that the individual is an autonomous human intellect independent from the social environment. Admiring the great thinkers of the past has become morally hazardous. Praise Immanuel Kant, and you might be

Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know? Considering how long ago he lived, we know quite a bit about the life of Alexander the Great. He was born in 356 BCE in Macedonia, was tutored by Aristotle as a boy, and inherited the throne from his father at the tender age of 20. He’s

Author: Jason Gots / Source: Big Think “Aristotle invents empirical science, where you go out with your own senses and amass data and then infer scientific principles from it. He simply treats morality in the same way.” How to find happiness, how to deal with loss, and how to build a democracy

Author: Scotty Hendricks / Source: Big Think While most of us ask “what should I do?” when we think about ethics. Many philosophers have approached it by asking “what kind of person should I be?”. These thinkers often turn to virtue ethics for answers. Aristotle, one of the most influential

Via GEFIRA, Aristotle was the first to point out how a thriving middle class is a condition sine qua non for a functioning democracy: “A constitution based on the middle class is the mean between the extremes of the rule by the rich and the rule by the poor.” That the middle [constitution] is