... , not universals, are ultimately real. He connected particulars with a special term, "ousia", which itself means "reality", though it is usually translated as "substance". "What is substance?" (Cooper, 1999). Aristotle answered this question by defining a substance as an individual, existing thing. Such a "thing" is not merely a form, nor is it a hunk of matter. Instead, it must always combine matter ... soul does have one distinctive purpose, which makes mankind different from all other earthly substances. That purpose is rationality, which some scholars have interpreted as a "spark of...

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... , not universals, are ultimately real. He connected particulars with a special term, "ousia", which itself means "reality", though it is usually translated as "substance". "What is substance?" (Cooper, 1999). Aristotle answered this question by defining a substance as an individual, existing thing. Such a "thing" is not merely a form, nor is it a hunk of matter. Instead, it must always combine matter ... soul does have one distinctive purpose, which makes mankind different from all other earthly substances. That purpose is rationality, which some scholars have interpreted as a "spark of...

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... or life plans or as the object of maximizing calculations. For this reason, Dewey's pluralistic welfare consequentialism was rather vaguely grouped with other non-maximizing "consequentialists" such as Aristotle and David Hume. So long as ethical theories were necessarily either consequentialist or deontological, there was of course little choice. But as moral philosophers have come to recognize virtue ethics ... of human dispositions or traits were essentially good in themselves. Dewey seems to drawn this very conclusion. Dewey chiefly associated talk of virtues with classical teleolog...

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... introduction of the Critique of Pure Reason. Kant opens the preface of the first edition by introducing a natural dilemma facing all humans: human reason asks itself questions it cannot answer. Aristotle defines human beings under the genus animal and the species rational. Later in the critique Kant adopts this definition as his own. This means that for Kant to be human ... secure path. Logic is an example of a field which follows the secure path. Logic, says Kant, has been following the secure path for a very long time. Since the time of Aristotle logicians have not had to retrace a si...

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... Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mind, with perception receiving ... ...

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... busy with their, obviously habitual, occupations – namely, she is working, while he is reading the poems. The idea of the "chain of being," introduced by Plato and Aristotle thousands of years ago, is connected with the idea of humans being the creatures of habit. The chain of being stands for the hierarchical system in which all matter and ... ...

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... strips the human spirit of its two indispensable prerequisites, the two things we cannot do without. They are, I submit, respect and hope. The opposite of respect is insult and, as Aristotle said, insult is the root of all rebellion. Respect is the recognition that our humanity is valued at its worth, that others recognize that humanity is a shared glory and our ... ...

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... and temporal are synthesized in the moment, we can turn our attention toward Kierkegaard's philosophy concerning time. Most people understand time in a spatial manner, in that it relates to objects. Aristotle in his book Physica describes time as the "number of movement in respect of before and after," and is continuous since it is an attribute of what is continuous." (KPA ... ...

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... with comprehension and knowing and having ideas? That also was the question Plato asked himself about 400 years before Christ. Plato lived in Athena, Greece, in about the same time Aristotle lived there. Actually with them the history of Western philosophy starts. Plato wrote about many subjects, state-affairs for example. But in this context his thoughts about ideas especially are ... ...

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