| 单词 | Aristotle |
| 例句 | Aristotelian philosophers looked backwards, assuming Aristotle had known everything that needed to be known; the new scientists looked forward, aiming to expand the limited range of topics in which they could make satisfactory predictions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Sometime between 1534 and 1549 Jean Taisnier, a musician and mathematician, remarked that Aristotle was sometimes mistaken; he was challenged by a representative of the pope to produce a convincing example of Aristotle being wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But to paraphrase Aristotle, one chess game does not a champion make. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A somewhat more immediate influence was Aristotle himself, whose death in 322 happened to coincide with Ptolemy’s accession to the governorship of Egypt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z If other rhetoric teachers were driving instructors, Aristotle was a mechanic: he didn’t just want to know where the accelerator was—he wanted to understand what went on under the hood. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Before them people believed Aristotle, who said that the natural state of a body was to be at rest and that it moved only if driven by a force or impulse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Both the means and the ends of rhetoric, Aristotle finds, participate in the deepest human questions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Rather than teach a series of tricks and tips for momentary success in speaking, as any catchpenny sophist might, Aristotle sought to form a coherent view of why those tips and tricks worked. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Pascal’s interpretation of the experiment was in direct contradiction to Aristotle’s claim that nature abhors a vacuum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a book prepared for publication—but seems rather to have been a collection of notes for the lectures Aristotle gave his students, or notes taken by those students at the lectures. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Indeed, Aristotle does not really have a concept of space as distinct from the objects which fill it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a truly Aristotelian way of thinking—yet the void would soon unseat Aristotle once and for all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle sought to rescue rhetoric from its place as a purely instrumental art: the highest rhetorical accomplishment, for Aristotle, was an expression of arete, or virtue. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Art had escaped, or partially escaped, from Aristotle, and it had done so under the guidance of geometry and optics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To Aristotle, the only possible way out of this quandary was to assume that the universe was eternal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Western civilization eventually had to make a choice between Aristotle and the Bible, which says that the finite universe sprang forth from the void and prophesies its ultimate destruction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy, when we thought that the earth was the center of the universe! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle made a distinction between rhetoric and dialectics. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The fear of the void was so great that Christian scholars tried to fix the Bible to match Aristotle rather than vice versa. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle, and most of the other Greek philosophers, on the other hand, did not like the idea of a creation because it smacked too much of divine intervention. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z From the difference in the apparent position of the North Star in Egypt and Greece, Aristotle even quoted an estimate that the distance around the earth was 400,000 stadia. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So, for Aristotle, all space is finite, all space is place, and the idea of an infinite extension is conceptually contradictory, just like the idea of a vacuum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Or how one of those students, Aristotle, had his students following behind him, walking through the Lyceum. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the battle against Aristotle was far from over. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle offers as his own example the case of an assault. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The transmission of heredity, as Aristotle perceived it, was essentially the transmission of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The book Aristotle is holding is his Metaphysics; the text, translated, reads: ‘A sign of those who know is that they can teach.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In doing so, he completely abandoned two principles which had been fundamental to Aristotle: that the element earth is a sphere, and that the element earth is at the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So as Aristotle’s arguments were accepted, the Greeks were forced to reject zero, void, the infinite, and infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle fell to the infinite and to the void, and so did the proof of God’s existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle was thus interpreted by philosophers as grounding knowledge in sensation, and sensation was reinterpreted as knowledge of a reality external to the perceiver. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He collected exotic lifeforms, including an elephant for Aristotle, his teacher. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle said that the basic job of the rhetorician was to “discover the best available means of persuasion.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z And by rejecting zero and infinity, Aristotle explained away Zeno’s paradoxes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Though Alexander had been tutored by Aristotle, and no doubt introduced India to Aristotelian ideas, the Greek philosophy never took hold. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Some have argued for continuity—that modern science derives from medieval science, or indeed from Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle thus does not think of the natural movement of the elements as movement through space; he sees it in teleological terms as the realization of potential. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The theories of the time tried to save a fragment of Aristotle’s philosophy by declaring that nature’s horror of the vacuum was “limited”; it could only destroy a finite amount of vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In 529, Christians closed the school of Athens— the last link to the academies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But it would be a commonplace to a man of Aristotle’s generation and time that the opinions of women and slaves were quite irrelevant. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z We can only hope, when it comes to our missing picnic basket, that the more enlightened side of Aristotle’s counsel would have prevailed before Boo-Boo got waterboarded. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For Aristotle, living organisms were nothing more than exquisite assemblages of machines. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z So when you grasp what Aristotle’s about—that his theory of rhetoric is also essentially a theory of human nature—you cannot but find yourself in awe. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Aristotle says in the Poetics,” said Henry, “that objects such as corpses, painful to view in themselves, can become delightful to contemplate in a work of art.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Aristotle, for instance, sets out in Rhetoric a whole series of characteristics that distinguish young people from old. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But he thought of Aristotle: pity and terror. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I like to think that maybe he—as Aristotle did—would bring up a man who would conquer the world. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Aristotle considered states the natural condition of human society, requiring no explanation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It seems pointless to maintain that Aristotle and his followers were deficient in common sense, or deficient in experience of how the world goes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nicholas of Cusa and Nicolaus Copernicus cracked open the nutshell universe of Aristotle and Ptolemy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The church attempted to patch the holes in the old way of thought, but Aristotle, the geocentric world, and the feudal way of life were all mortally wounded. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Aristotle of the universities was thus not the real Aristotle but one adapted to provide an educational programme within a world where the most important discipline was taken to be theology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z How could a father’s sperm “absorb” the instructions to produce his daughter’s “generative parts,” Aristotle asked, when none of these parts was to be found anywhere in the father’s body? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The two claims are very different, but Aristotle never distinguishes between them, nor tests his claim that heavy objects fall faster than light ones, for he takes it to be self-evidently true. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Now, behind those two inches you want to hide Aristotle’s ninety-nine cubits and, speaking only of my tiny error, remain silent about his enormous mistake. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z This notion—blending inheritance—was already familiar to most biologists: it was a restatement of Aristotle’s theory of mixing between male and female characters. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It took a mind as precise and analytical as Aristotle’s to systematically dismantle Pythagoras’s theory of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Cremonini went on to publish a lengthy book on the heavens in which no mention was made of Galileo’s discoveries, for the simple reason that they were irrelevant to the task of reconstructing Aristotle’s thinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “What of the great Muslim scholars, who saved Aristotle from oblivion?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Aristotle thought about the natural world in exactly the same way: that is to say, he saw it as the product of rational, purposive activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As far as Aristotle was concerned, phenomena included everything which was generally accepted to be the case. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As Islam spread, zero diffused throughout the Muslim-controlled world, everywhere conflicting with Aristotle’s doctrine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle declared that most insects did not come from other insects, but from dew, dung, dead animals, or mud. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Void/zero destroys Aristotle’s neat argument, his refutation of Zeno, and his proof of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Impetus theory was used to handle some anomalies, not to bring about a revolution; indeed, medieval natural philosophers were incapable of imagining a revolution that would supplant Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to Aristotle, the sublunary elements were naturally at rest, while the supralunary spheres rotated in endless circles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Earth’s special position at the center of the universe made it the only world capable of containing life, as Aristotle held that all objects sought out their proper place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle and later philosophers would insist that there could not be an infinite number of nested spheres. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He was withering in his response: Aristotle says that a hundred-pound ball falling from a height of one hundred cubits hits the ground before a one-pound ball has fallen one cubit. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Men generate before they yet have certain characters, such as a beard or grey hair,” Aristotle wrote perceptively—but they pass on those features to their children. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A year later Joseph Glanvill published Plus ultra: or the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the Days of Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His response was a lecture attacking Aristotle’s account of falling bodies, the weakest point in his physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Instantly there were some heavy tablets in it, signed by Aristotle, a parchment signed by Hecate, and some type-written duplicates signed by the Master of Trinity, who could not remember having met him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z This line of reasoning had another consequence—and this is why Aristotle’s philosophy endured for so many years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It fell back upon its orthodox teachings—the Aristotelian-based philosophies of scholars like Saint Augustine and Boethius, as well as Aristotle’s proof of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Before she left, Mrs. Quintana took my face between her two hands, looked right into my eyes, and whispered, “Aristotle Mendoza, I will love you forever.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Schrödinger was trying to conjure up a chemical that would capture the divergent, contradictory qualities of heredity—a molecule to satisfy Aristotle. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Yes. Really, Aristotle. Can I tell you something?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z He described it as ‘a supplement to Aristotle’s On the Heavens’ because he assumed it would be part of a programme of education still based on Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Centuries later, the biologist Max Delbrück would joke that Aristotle should have been given the Nobel Prize posthumously—for the discovery of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Aristotle had recast heredity as the flow of information—a river of code moving from egg to the embryo. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Aristotle was also the midwife of rhetoric’s place in the liberal arts—making it an object of systematic study and finding a place for it in his system of thought. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Like Aristotle, Wolff imagined that the embryo contained some sort of encrypted information—code—that was not merely a miniature version of a human, but instructions to make a human from scratch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Aristotle’s investigations were a bit more hands-on: when he wanted to know what the inside of an octopus looked like, he grabbed a scalpel and opened one up. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Both Aristotle and Pythagoras were partially right and partially wrong. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If Aristotle were to fall, the proof of God—a bulwark of the church—was no longer valid. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Ptolemaic system, like those of Plato and Aristotle, claimed that the moon, the sun and all the planets circled around the earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As a result, the new ideas—the questioning of Aristotle—could no longer be tolerated. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle needed to attract pupils—and while his rival Isocrates was teaching rhetoric, the Lyceum needed to be able to compete. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z This is not figural: Aristotle’s works spent a couple hundred years in a cellar in what’s now western Turkey before someone dug them out in the first century bc. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Aristotle names five of them: laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures, and oaths. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For example, Aristotle believed Empedocles’s theory that everything was made out of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As zero spread through the Arab lands, the Muslims embraced it and rejected Aristotle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle believed that all the matter in the universe was made_up of four basic elements—earth, air, fire, and water. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle was still taught by rote, and the only thing a Cambridge education fitted anyone for was to be a competent priest or a bad doctor. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z On this secure foundation he set out to build a new philosophy to replace that of Aristotle, and he began to publish elements of his new system in 1637. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle rejected the creation of the universe out of the void because he believed that the void could never exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But what Aristotle is attempting is a basic taxonomy of forms of argument: and like so much in his book, those forms are so familiar to us that we have long ceased to notice them. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Aristotle was a disciple of Plato, and to start with, this seems to have been his position too. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It is not known exactly what length a stadium was, but it may have been about 200 yards, which would make Aristotle’s estimate about twice the currently accepted figure. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Once when he said, “Aristotle shocked people. Charles Darwin outraged people. Aldous Huxley scandalized millions!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The scholastic philosophy taught in the universities, based on Aristotle, was, Bacon insisted, caught up in a series of futile arguments which could never generate new knowledge of the sort he was looking for. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The void had weakened Aristotle’s philosophy, and the idea of an infinitely large cosmos helped shatter the nutshell universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A child of the Counter-Reformation, Descartes learned about Aristotle at the very moment when the church was relying upon his principles the most. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Athens in the time of Pericles, Plato and Aristotle had a vast slave population. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle simply declared that mathematicians “do not need the infinite, or use it.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z That Ptolemy’s legitimacy as ruler stemmed from Alexander’s, and the great man was a student of Aristotle, was yet another significant factor. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Rhetoric was, for Aristotle, dialectic’s wayward cousin: having as its method not “this therefore that” but “probably this so likely that,” and as its object not knowledge but persuasion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z They are optimistic, because unlike the worldly Aristotle, they haven’t yet realized that “most things turn out for the worse.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The simplest scheme is Aristotle’s—who said that a speech is a thing of two halves. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z As far as Aristotle was concerned, as we saw in Chapter 3, causal explanations had four components: the formal cause, the final cause, the material cause and the efficient cause. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Many of Aristotle’s examples look pretty dry and obvious. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Where a nova could possibly be regarded as a miracle, a comet was too commonplace an occurrence to be handled in this way, so if comets were supralunary phenomena, Aristotle was wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For Aristotle, the ideal science consisted of a chain of logical deductions from incontestable premises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For Gilbert, the experimental method is an alternative, not a supplement, to Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thomas Bradwardine, who was to become archbishop of Canterbury, tried to disprove atomism, Aristotle’s old nemesis. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Yet Descartes could not reject Aristotle entirely; he was so afraid of the void that he denied its existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Where Aristotle had assumed that each element behaved differently, the new physics assumed that all heavy objects could be thought of as the same. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to Aristotle, the universe is divided between a supralunary zone, where nothing changes and movement is always in circles, and a sublunary zone. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle shines, in other words, because he was the first person really to grasp that the study of rhetoric is the study of humanity itself. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Plato and Aristotle were comfortable in a slave society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle had denied that the colour yellow is really present in the rainbow, and had identified only three colours; Theodoric insisted that yellow was a fourth colour in the rainbow. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For Aristotle, logos was the province of something he called an “enthymeme,” which was the equivalent in rhetoric to the syllogism in logic. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z From Aristotle, Maimonides had learned to prove God’s existence by denying the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z What Aristotle has to say about oaths is fairly peripheral for the modern courtroom, where everyone is expected to speak under oath. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z If Aristotle had described a current of information moving across generations, then Mendel had found its currency. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Grasping for analogies, Aristotle called the male contribution a “principle of movement.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Aristotle and Ptolemy had assumed that the heavens were mathematically legible, and indeed Ptolemy had devised techniques for reading them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle thought the earth was stationary and that the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars moved in circular orbits about the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Above all, experimentation began to engage directly with central claims made by Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Where it comes to the more specific question of living witnesses, Aristotle is as ever pragmatic. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Geographical knowledge in the classical period of fifth to fourth centuries bce—the times of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Sophocles, and Aristotle—was not much broader than in Homer’s day, four hundred years earlier. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Aristotle argued that the actual material provided by females was menstrual blood. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Despite the church’s objections, Kepler’s heliocentric system would prevail eventually, because Kepler was right and Aristotle was wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The mathematicians followed Archimedes; the philosophers followed Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z An attack on Aristotle was considered an attack upon the church. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My cousins—Aristotle, Socrates, Cleopatra, and Plato—had the thwarted, overbrushed look of ministers’ children. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Greek universe, created by Pythagoras, Aristotle, and Ptolemy, survived long after the collapse of Greek civilization. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But Pascal’s simple experiment demolished Aristotle’s assertion that nature abhors a vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle was remarkable for his explorations of natural phenomena, studying, for example, the development of the chicken embryo within the egg. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But Aristotle established no tradition of biological enquiry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Christians, cowed by the power of Greek philosophy, chose Aristotle over their Bible. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There are two characteristic forms that natural philosophy takes in the Middle Ages: one is the commentary on Aristotle; the other is the collection of quaestiones, of problems to which there is no agreed solution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Science would never progress until the world discarded Aristotle’s physics—along with Aristotle’s rejection of Zeno’s infinities. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “See, it’s just that my name’s Aristotle.”His eyes lit up. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Aristotle held that the universe is constructed out of five elements. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to Aristotle, comets exist in the upper atmosphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even the Muslim world, with its Eastern traditions, was heavily contaminated by the teachings of Aristotle, thanks to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They seized on this partly because it enabled them to introduce into philosophy a creator God unknown to Aristotle and Ptolemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When he moves onto “witnesses,” Aristotle includes in the term what we would probably regard as a slightly different category of things. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Maimonides argued that there were flaws in Aristotle’s proof that the universe had always existed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Newton of rhetoric—the one person whose work in this department overshadows the whole history of the subject—was, of course, Aristotle. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Clausewitz, a child of Aristotle, went no further than to say that a political animal is a warmaking animal. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The nonexistence of absolute rest therefore meant that one could not give an event an absolute position in space, as Aristotle had believed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle’s Rhetoric was the first great systematic statement of how rhetoric works, and I draw on both its arguments and its structure throughout this book. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The real obstacle, apart from unquestioning belief in Aristotle, was the even more unquestioning belief in the Bible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All of a sudden the void was allowed, because an omnipotent deity doesn’t need to follow Aristotle’s rules if he doesn’t want to. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “How happy those children seem together!” observed Mr. March, finding it difficult to become absorbed in his Aristotle after the young couple had gone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle explained natural processes in terms of four causes: formal, final, material and efficient. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle’s universe is finite and spherical; moreover, it is not surrounded by infinite space and there is no such thing as empty space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Cicero, though he followed Aristotle, may not even have known his work firsthand. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Aristotle might have had difficulty in following Galileo’s argument that the size of the container matters when trying to understand floating bodies, but Archimedes would not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle thought his method was necessarily trustworthy; he was wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into “material” and “message,” but abstractly, he had captured one of the essential truths about the nature of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This was the “movement” that Aristotle had so vividly imagined centuries before. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z An Aristotelian could never argue like this: Aristotle himself did not believe the universe had a creator, and his medieval successors thought that purposiveness was part of the very fabric of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z These are what—in connection with forensic rhetoric in particular, though they have their analogues in the deliberative sphere—Aristotle calls “nontechnical proofs.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Zero was an emblem of the new teachings, of the rejection of Aristotle and the acceptance of the void and the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The official syllabus was still largely based on Aristotle, and Galileo dutifully, but without enthusiasm, taught the party line in his lectures. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It is said that Galileo demonstrated that Aristotle’s belief was false by dropping weights from the leaning tower of Pisa. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It would however be simply wrong to think that we and Aristotle share the same views about what constitutes a justified true belief, and about how to acquire such beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle drew up a whole list of “topics”—like “invention” and “proof,” the term has a special force in rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z This, of course, meant that Aristotle had to go. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle took the view that harder substances are denser and heavier than softer substances; it followed that ice is heavier than water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The philosophers, confident that Aristotle was always right, saw no need to test his claims. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thus, if the Muslims were to accept zero, they had to reject Aristotle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A point that Aristotle makes that is particularly germane here is that arguments are made from accepted premises—“and many accepted premises are mutually contradictory.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The Odyssey speaks of “the divine for which all men long,” and hundreds of years later Aristotle wrote, “Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle believed that knowledge, including natural philosophy, should be fundamentally deductive in character. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There could be thousands of other Earths, each teeming with creatures; it was certainly within God’s power, whether Aristotle agrees or not. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato were wearing their gangster suits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He produced a new theory of the rainbow which emphasized the role of refraction, where Aristotle had only mentioned reflection; but there is no evidence that Grosseteste ever conducted experiments to test his theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, most people of the time still believed in “spontaneous generation,” a theory put forth by the philosopher Aristotle in 330 B.C., almost two thousand years before Maria’s time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Entry to the inner redoubt requires one to pass through the mathematical sciences, with Tartaglia himself standing among them; within is Philosophy, accompanied by Aristotle and Plato. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even Aristotle, he said, if he came back to life, would not be able to make sense of what was said by his modern disciples. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle was not a particularly ardent champion of women, but he nevertheless believed in using evidence as the basis of theory building. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Early medieval Jews, both in Spain and in Babylon, were wed firmly to Aristotle’s doctrines. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This description of physiology—as the exquisite matching of form and function, down to the molecular level—dates back to Aristotle. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The referee was right: Plutarch’s experience was an indirect experience, just as Aristotle’s phenomena were based on other people’s experiences; Garzoni’s and della Porta’s experiences were based on real, personally performed tests. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The church would cling to Aristotle for a few more centuries, but the fall of Aristotle and the rise of the void and the infinite were clearly beginning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He noted that instead of accepting Aristotle’s proof of God, the Muslim scholars turned to the atomists, Aristotle’s old rivals, whose doctrine, though out of favor, managed to survive the ravages of time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle just wished infinity away by stating that it is simply a construct of the human mind. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This implied that everything did not have to orbit directly around the earth, as Aristotle and Ptolemy had thought. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Aristotle, he implicitly assumed that the universe was static, constant, and eternal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle’s hypothesis was that they represent some sort of exhalation from the earth catching fire. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It amounted to a defence of Aristotle against the new astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle still had a firm grip on the church, and its finest thinkers still rejected the infinitely large, the infinitely small, and the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle, two generations later, was content to argue that those things happened because it was the nature of the Moon to have phases and eclipses—mere verbal juggling, an explanation that explains nothing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they turned to the ancients like Aristotle and the Neoplatonists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Both Aristotle and Newton believed in absolute time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Des Cartes is not more believed upon his own Word, than Aristotle: Matter of Fact is the only Thing appealed to... The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One thing, though, they agreed on: Aristotle was always right. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This explains why there are no parts of the body named after Hippocrates or Galen, no stars named after Ptolemy, no creatures named after Aristotle or Pliny. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle had said that rainbows are the result of reflection, while Theodoric showed that they were the result of two refractions and two reflections within each drop of water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Clearly, Chuck Parson was no Aristotle when it came to logic. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The main part of his reason is: “The three most intelligent men I’ve been fortunate to know well — Oliver Sacks, Christopher Hitchens and Jonathan Miller — were each die-hard believers in Allen’s innocence. As was Aristotle.” Keith McNally Stirs the Pot 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z That work, “Aristotle With a Bust of Homer,” was purchased for $2.3 million. Rembrandt Portraits May Come Home, for Record Price, With Government Help 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z And Aristotle's reasoning on vacuums is "temptingly similar to that used in Monty Python and the Holy Grail to demonstrate that if a woman weighs as much as a duck, she is a witch." 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World': the invention and ascension of steam power 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z Without once looking at the menu, they can dine in complete confidence that they will never be served anything that wasn’t deeply familiar to Aristotle. Greece and Turkey, Together on One Menu at Iris 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z As Louise Foxcroft wrote in Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A history of the modern menopause, Aristotle, Galen and others knew that a woman stopped bleeding and lost her ability to reproduce. What science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for and how to treat it | Rose George 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Its founder, John Aristotle Phillips, created the site in 2014 as part of a collaboration with Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand, which had created a futures exchange tied to political events. This site bet big on political gambling. Regulators want it shut down. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Aristotle takes on the biggest/simplest questions of all. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z Obviously, Aristotle hadn’t snacked on deviled eggs when he proclaimed the whole as greater than the sum of its parts. This deviled egg sampler is sure to please your Memorial Day crowd 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Aristotle’s “downhill slope” is topped by men, followed by women, then devolves into “hybrid offspring” like satyrs and fauns. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z At Toad Hall, lair of the multibillionaire Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of fat cats is plotting the overthrow of the French state by automaton soldiers. Best graphic novels of 2012 2012-11-30T11:00:01Z For Aristotle, wonder is a primordial prompt to start thinking, a spur to philosophy, leading us to contemplate the greatest cosmological questions. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Svensson follows those slithery beings in every direction they take him, producing a book that moves from Aristotle to Freud to the fishing trips of his youth. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z It goes back to Aristotle, who observed in “The Poetics” that spectacle is the least valuable element of tragedy. Notes on political theater: The perils of spectacle 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z People claim that Plato and Aristotle and Socrates were all members of this mystery cult, a secret order that wanted to preserve and disseminate knowledge. ArtsBeat: Renaissance Men: David S. Goyer Introduces 'Da Vinci's Demons' for Starz 2012-10-12T12:00:54Z The result, for the reader, isn't always catharsis, as Aristotle suggested, but its direct opposite: a sort of creeping horror that leads to a desensitisation to the reality being represented. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo – review 2013-06-20T09:00:00Z After the launch of his academic career, he became intrigued by Joyce’s conceptual debt to the philosophy of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. ‘The higher things of human life’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Aristotle saw children as essentially moral beings in training, while Kant viewed morality as a simple matter of relationships between free and rational beings. First Person: Whose Picture Is It, Anyway? 2014-04-11T22:48:49Z While I found Vogler’s belief in the unconscious connectivity of storytelling deeply convincing, it was his neo-classical approach — Aristotle by way of Campbell as filtered through a Disney executive — that really won me over. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z Macbeth's challenging character trajectory, moving from a decorated war hero to a spiritually deadened killing machine, would have been frowned upon by Aristotle, who had fixed views on this sort of thing. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension and Nora Roberts for characterization. How Stacey Abrams turned heartbreak into a career plan — and romance novels 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z This is Aesop’s argument as well, and much of what Aristotle says against lying also comes down to the idea that lies are harmful mostly to the teller of lies. What the Original “Pinocchio” Really Says About Lying 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z To that simple plot line, Mr. Eco attached a labyrinthine series of deceptions, cabals and occult mysteries, including a lost work of Aristotle thought to be inspired by the Devil. Umberto Eco, best-selling author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Fifty years ago an art historian said anyone would be forgiven for thinking that Caravaggio's contribution to civilisation lay somewhere between Aristotle and Lenin; now we could throw in Nietzsche and the Marquis de Sade. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z Aristotle, Lister reports, thought going barefoot suppressed lust. ‘A Curious History of Sex’ Covers Aphrodisiacs, Bicycles, Graham Crackers and More 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z As Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Then Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher, showed that the height of mercury in a barometer reflected the weight of the atmosphere, not nature’s abhorrence of a vacuum, as claimed by Aristotle. Understanding the universe 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The book was attributed to Aristotle but there is little, if any, of his work in the text. Formerly banned sex manual to go under the hammer in Edinburgh 2013-01-03T18:02:57Z It is sageness crowned with levity, what Aristotle meant when he spoke of “educated insolence.” How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z That tutor became a constant in the student’s life, a trusted elder and guide, and “an integral part of the family,” said Suzanne Rheault, the founder and chief executive of Aristotle Circle in Manhattan. Tutors Take on Duties of Therapists and Personal Assistants 2012-12-15T00:04:53Z A popular quote often misattributed to Aristotle has the ancient philosopher identifying the defining characteristic of intelligence as the “ability to entertain a thought without accepting it.” No, Daryl Hall did not “destroy” me: The right-wing social media mob’s “social justice warrior” narrative couldn’t be more ridiculous 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Facts was born in ancient Greece, the brainchild of famed philosopher Aristotle. Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z For Aristotle, there is latitude when it comes to which endeavors merit our pursuit, but authenticity and self-knowledge are nonnegotiable. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Each of its chapters opens with a recitation of Aristotle or a consideration of his influence on other philosophers, including Nietzsche, Kant, and the political theorist Carl Schmitt. What Jacques Derrida Understood About Friendship 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The immutable truths of Plato and Aristotle needed to be appreciated again. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Aristotle was the first to observe that philosophy, and particularly ethics, has a deep public relations problem. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Aristotle tells us in “Poetics” that tragedy begins with an action “that is complete and whole and has some magnitude.” Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z In “Poetics,” Aristotle says that the best endings are surprising, yet inevitable. Laura van den Berg is the best young writer in America 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z The people in tragedies, according to Aristotle, are better than the rest of us, while the people in comedies are worse. | 'Letters to Juliet': Amanda Seyfried Helps Reunite Lovers in Verona 2010-05-13T21:17:00Z It is hard to believe, given the erudite references that fill the book and our talk, from Islamic history to Aristotle, the Valladolid debate and Voltaire’s admiration for British tolerance. Mohamed El Bachiri: ‘Terrorists killed my wife: this is my jihad for love’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Aristotle – a favorite of the period — views woman as a defective man. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z Aristotle considered catharsis cleansing, but it can sometimes feel like a beating. Perspective | What book has the most disappointing ending? Readers have many opinions. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z “Aristotle’s Way” is blazed by a counterfactual that Hall and Aristotle routinely employ: Is a life of vice a truly happy one? Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z “Ipsa Dixit” uses a huge range of texts — Aristotle, Lydia Davis, Freud — to question, and poke fun at, how we express what we want to express. She Tackled Aristotle in an Opera. Next Up: Medieval French Couplets. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Did you know that Aristotle spoke with a lisp? Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z But citing Aristotle, Adam Smith and James Madison, among others, he melds history, philosophy and ideology into a sobering vision of a society in an accelerating decline. Review: Noam Chomsky Focuses on Financial Inequality in ‘Requiem for the American Dream’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z When pressed on the meaning behind the label’s name, Mancuso matched Aristotle Onassis’s discretion and simply demurred, “The answer to that question is quite fascinating, but it’s better off kept private.” Basics Instinct 2010-08-26T19:06:00Z The French Revolution, by contrast, was the most formidable statement of political agency since Aristotle declared man a political animal. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z In a two-volume edition of Aristotle’s collected works commissioned by a Frankfurt nobleman, text is surrounded by hand-painted borders that give the illusion of gold and jewels. Art Review: ‘Renaissance Venice’ at the Morgan Library & Museum 2012-05-31T21:44:28Z But in some of these really ancient texts, like Aristotle, he was fundamentally concerned and horrified at the fact that not all humans are perfect reproductions of their father's bodies. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Aristotle also made mention of the two “horns of the womb.” “It’s like being on ecstasy”: The orgasm no one talks about 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Like the classic syllogism "All men are mortal, Aristotle is a man, therefore Aristotle is mortal" — that's what's used to teach the classic "This is what an argument looks like." A talk with Benjamin Apple, 'Cubed' star, 'comedy person' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Hall, a professor of classics at King’s College London, makes the case that practicing the virtue and moderation central to the philosophy of Aristotle is the key to lasting happiness in the modern world. New in Paperback: ‘Bad Blood’ and ‘Lost Children Archive’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Aristotle faulted the play for the inconsistency of Iphigenia’s behavior, but Euripides intentionally emphasizes the changeable nature of all the characters, who see themselves at the mercy of shifting circumstances. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Which is not to say that we might not be changed in some way by looking at a work of art; that we might not, to drag in Aristotle, experience pity and fear. Museums: bland, academic and failing to speak to our souls? 2011-01-31T15:09:09Z “Aristotle allows you a prologue! The best thing that can happen is that the play plots against you. It hoodwinks you. My plays aren’t intent on making things clear.” The Freewheeling Playwright Jez Butterworth Takes On Ireland’s Troubles 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z We could start by discussing the nature of friendship as I note that Aristotle had something to say on the subject. Here and Now: Letters by Paul Auster & JM Coetzee – digested read 2013-05-26T13:00:02Z Little attention was paid in 1930, for example, when a young Aristotle Onassis bought six freighters for a knockdown price of $20,000 each, seeding what would become a shipping empire. James Trager Dies at 86; Author of ?The People?s Chronology? 2012-03-05T00:56:20Z When theorizing, he tends to be as terse and precislike as Aristotle in “The Poetics,” that starting point for any consideration of how works of literature function. ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Aristotle's Poetics emphasised the importance of physical suffering and peril in plot. Louise Doughty: rereading the best courtroom dramas 2013-06-21T18:00:01Z He even painted murals for the playroom of Aristotle Onassis’s yacht, two of which are on display. In New York, it’s all about ‘Madeline’ Merz No Compass Will Find Home Accidental Byron, Aristotle and snowboarding is the kind of unlikely combination of influences cited by posturing fledgling bands. Merz: No Compass Will Find Home – review 2013-01-06T00:06:11Z Speculation about our planet’s roundness began with Aristotle and other ancient Greeks, and every major scholar during the so-called Dark Ages was fully aware of it. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z For Aristotle, virtue doesn’t mean depriving yourself of the “bad” things; it’s more about giving yourself the possibility of being happy. Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z “Heart of a Soldier” may offer something of the communal healing ascribed to the theater by Aristotle. ?Heart of a Soldier,? Opera About Rick Rescorla, 9/11 Hero 2011-09-04T03:00:09Z It is a litany of specifically autobiographical desolation that ends on a slightly twisted, very funny high note: “I try to smile/Remembering Jackie/At Aristotle Onassis’s funeral.” Rene Ricard: ‘Remember’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In her pocket-size new book, the Cambridge classicist writes about the ways in which women have been regarded as interlopers in public life from the time of Aristotle up to the present day. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z He and his brother, Dean, started a company that they named Aristotle, which compiled and sold lists of eligible voters to campaigns. This site bet big on political gambling. Regulators want it shut down. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Storytellers can be teachers, like Aristotle, or they can just be storytellers like – I don't know, who's writing the trash these days? Q&A: Harlan Ellison 2013-06-14T15:00:16Z Aristotle, who had a lot to say about self-esteem, helped me break out of that cycle. Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Many of the thinkers he surveys, from Lao Tzu and Aristotle to Montaigne and Spinoza, have tried to philosophize their way to tranquility, but no one has quite succeeded. Review | We’ve been looking to philosophers to make sense of life. Maybe we should be looking at cats instead. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Only, please, nobody tell Pixar that Aristotle added a fifth element, ether, which physicists interpret as dark matter or the void. ‘Elemental’ Review: Sparks Fly 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z And of course you find it in Aristotle, who said that to live without a goal in life is a mark of much folly. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z Aristotle noted as much in the “Poetics”: Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in the unity of the hero. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z He originally envisioned a movie about the history of astronomy from Aristotle to Einstein but changed direction when his research brought him to Hypatia and the period just before the start of the Dark Ages. Film: Hypatia: Martyr to Christian Zealots 2010-05-22T07:01:00Z When she dared remarry, to shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, some onlookers were furious: “The reaction here is anger, shock and dismay,” reported the New York Times; a German newspaper claimed America had “lost a saint.” Perspective | Melania Trump is no Jackie O, but, yikes, who would want to be? 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Friendship, which Aristotle called a “slow ripening fruit,” seems to suit my temperament better than the fruits of partnership, or puréed fruit hurled at me from a highchair. Modern Love: A Role He Was Born to Play 2012-11-15T21:08:15Z Annabel Lyon's The Golden Mean is the story of Alexander's childhood, told through the eyes of his tutor Aristotle. Alexander the Great novel gets bum rap in Canada 2010-08-24T11:31:00Z “Happiness is not a state as far as Aristotle is concerned, it’s an activity,” Hall explains. How Aristotle is the perfect happiness guru 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z What are her top three tips for getting in touch with your inner Aristotle? How Aristotle is the perfect happiness guru 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z This time there are impersonations of Tom Hardy and renditions of Frankie Valli’s Grease, but also long discussions of Aristotle’s Poetics, and a scene in which the pair enact the death of Sophocles. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z She was rumored to have bitter rivalries with colleagues; was crushed by a torrid and unhappy affair with the Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis; and had a conflicted relationship with her own body. Monica Bellucci Tries on the Dress, and Life, of Maria Callas 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z In conversation he tends towards the philosophical, and his elliptical answers stray from his films towards his admiration for the likes of Aristotle and William Morris. Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z So he started a self-taught course in ethics, reading works by Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Bentham, Rawls and others, and devouring academic papers he found online. Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z It all began with Aristotle, whose “Poetics” identified a core literary invention that Fletcher calls “the stretch.” Art’s Greatest Enemy Might Not Be Science 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z While we can certainly bracket these failings while emphasizing the practical aspects of Aristotle’s overall view, a little intellectual honesty is needed. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The first was the remarkable explosion of thought in early Athens, sparked by Socrates and continued by Plato, Aristotle and their followers. Seeing the light 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z When Aristotle wrote the immortal line "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts," he probably wasn’t thinking about Aerin Lauder’s new showroom at the New York Design Center. Aerin Lauder’s New Showroom at the New York Design Center 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z In Hall’s assessment, “Stoicism does not encourage the same joie de vivre as Aristotle’s ethics.” Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z I didn’t read all of Aristotle but just the Nicomachean Ethics and the Poetics. The Bonds Between Sex and Books 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z That’s the cardinal rule in museums, especially with masterpieces such as Rembrandt’s “Aristotle With a Bust of Homer” hanging on the walls. Life is short, so touch the painting 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z In the third century BCE, for example, Aristotle proposed that the good life — happiness — consists of developing and using both our intellectual and moral capacities to the fullest possible extent across an entire lifetime. The best “defence”: On fighting for the good life in Trumplandia 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z And when Aristotle noticed the fine network of blood vessels in the folded surface of the brain, he believed its function was as a radiator. Why dissecting the brain only gives us half its story | Daniel Glaser 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Aristotle claimed that as one swallow does not make spring, neither does one good day make someone happy. At a French Opera Festival, Premieres in Pursuit of Happiness 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Their complex biology has long perplexed naturalists, Svensson writes: Aristotle, for one, thought eels arose from mud, “like a slithering, enigmatic miracle.” Birds and Horses and Eels, Oh My! New Books About Animals 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z What Aristotle concludes can be summed up, very simply, as the following: in epic, things just happen. Beowulf, Shakespeare and the plausibility of fiction 2012-07-25T17:04:25Z Aristotle, meanwhile, is the philosopher incarnate: "All head… his thinning hair looked as if its roots had been forced apart by the growth of the massive brain." Looking back at the Lost Booker: Mary Renault 2010-05-03T09:00:00Z One quibble is that the book’s thesis, that literature is boringly in thrall to Aristotle, is a bit of a straw man. The Deeply Wacky Pleasures of Jane Alison’s “Meander, Spiral, Explode” 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “They should have length, but such that they are easy to remember” is the rule Aristotle prescribes. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Pytho's world changes when Alexander dies and Aristotle, concerned about growing anti-Macedonian sentiment in Athens, moves his family to the more rustic Chalcis. The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon – review 2013-01-17T09:00:01Z Gödel could go for long walks with his fellow institute scholar Einstein, who sponsored Gödel’s citizenship application and called him the greatest logician since Aristotle, but he was wracked by physical ailments and nervous conditions. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Easier said than done, but Aristotle, Hall explains, is there to help. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Their first college years were full of logic, mostly derived from Aristotle, who identified 14 main types of valid deduction and 13 key gambits of sophistical trickery. In Praise of ‘Rationality’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z One is tempted to imagine a play — to be written in desperate defiance of Aristotle — from which doing would be eliminated altogether, in which nothing but being would be left. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z As Aristotle said, the poet is greater than the historian because he presents not only things as they were, but foreshadows what they might have been. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z The Times Company’s chief executive insightfully examines the interactions among politicians, citizens and the press in this deeply researched book, taking readers from Aristotle to Brexit, with plenty of Trump in between. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Sixteen others on the Spectator’s list included philosophers Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Kant and Aristotle. ISU project to restore dome last seen in 1973 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z What is remarkable about Aristotle is that he was the first to practice empirical science, rather than to settle for large-scale hypothetical theories about natural laws or cosmologies. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z But it is memorabilia from her explosive love affair with shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis which dominate. New exhibition gives rare insight into life of diva Maria Callas 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z However, others refused to accept that; Aristotle insisted that a river is more than the water it contains. Total Recall fuels delusion about who we are 2012-08-28T09:39:32Z In the end they pick another text, from Aristotle. | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy 2013-05-31T21:49:07Z According to Aristotle, women’s voices were proof of their wickedness. From Ancient Myths to Modern Day, Women and the Struggle for Power 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Aristotle explained that drama needs, a beginning, a middle and a cliffhanger. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 Finale: Negan Makes His Entrance 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Aristotle thought of it as fundamental to ethical behavior; Confucius saw it as essential to social order. The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z In hard times the rooms were emptied into auctions – Lichfield once recalled turning over a piece of silver on Aristotle Onassis's yacht and finding his own family crest on the back. Lord Lichfield's photographs to go on display at Shugborough Hall 2011-03-18T21:07:03Z These relationships, Aristotle writes, “are easily broken off. … When the motive of friendship has passed away, the friendship itself is dissolved.” Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Almost all of the great philosophers — Socrates, Aristotle, the Stoics, Rousseau, Kant, Thoreau — were walkers whose ideas germinated only in motion. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Aristotle would say the unplanned life is slightly less likely to be happy. How Aristotle is the perfect happiness guru 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Annabel Lyon's acclaimed debut novel, The Golden Mean, took as its subject the philosopher Aristotle and his tutelage of Alexander the Great. The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon – review 2013-01-17T09:00:01Z In his own writings, Plato’s prize pupil Aristotle seems to confirm some elements of his master’s story while casting doubt on others. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Aristotle was concerned with how to achieve a virtuous, happy life. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Questions surrounding the meaning of artifacts go all the way back to Aristotle, who wrestled with them in his “Metaphysics,” and our understanding of their importance has waxed and waned over the centuries. Artifacts of the Lost Year 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Not long after his pupil Alexander the Great inherited the throne, Aristotle opened a school of philosophy at a gymnasium outside Athens. | 'Boxing Gym': Sweat, Blood and Philosophy to the Rhythms of the Sweet Science 2010-10-21T23:08:00Z For him the great guru of medical antiquity was Aristotle, with his emphasis on experiment and observation, and his study of body parts in terms of mechanical functionality. Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review 2012-06-06T09:50:01Z “Literature, philosophy, music all fit very well together. They’re all parts of the higher things of human life,” says O’Rourke, the author of texts including “Aristotle’s Political Anthropology” and “Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas.” ‘The higher things of human life’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Aristotle says that a tragedy shows a good man declining from a state of happiness to one of misery, through a great error of judgment. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z His “Aristotle and Dante” young adult novels are immensely popular, but I regard his poetry with helpless envy. Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z We like to think that Aristotle would have made an exception for reading. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Bourdain epitomized the 21st century update on Aristotle's eudaimonia: the good life, one of pleasure and productivity. Chasing Anthony Bourdain’s “perfect little things”: Kitchen work and what I hungered for 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z I often see Mr. Gottlieb at the ballet, which feels to me not unlike running into Aristotle at the ancient theater of Epidaurus. A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z This is because these statues were used at crossroads, Michalis Tiverios, emeritus professor of classical archaeology at Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University, told The Associated Press. Greek police arrest 2 trying to sell rare Roman-era statue 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Around the perimeter of this vast green space are 530 stone plaques bearing the names of thinkers such as Maya Angelou and Aristotle, each inset with a stone from a place where they lived. Outside Orlando, a tribute from Mister Rogers’s old neighborhood 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z This “philosophy-opera,” as The New Yorker critic Alex Ross called it, sets voice, violin, flute and percussion to texts by writers from Aristotle and Wittgenstein to Lydia Davis and Jenny Holzer. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Largely structured around the divisions of philosophy introduced by Aristotle, the work is an extensive, though unevenly convincing, introduction to the Bible read as reason. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z But it helps that the exploration of his teleological musings are peppered with jokes like Eleanor’s dismissive, “Who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?” to which the exasperated Chidi replies, “Plato!” The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Since Aristotle, characters with disabilities have appeared in western drama and impairment has long been used in fiction as a metaphor for mortality, evil, pity – the human condition. Left out: the authors who know disability from inside 2013-07-11T10:55:47Z Aristotle, one of the first to try, argued that comedy’s aim is representing people as worse than they are in real life, but how many would describe it that way today? ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z Albert Einstein called the groundbreaking mathematician Kurt Gödel the greatest logician since Aristotle. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z They are – not least on DDs, which invokes Aristotle and Freud to explain Pop's liking for women with large breasts – but it was ever thus. Iggy and the Stooges: Ready to Die – review 2013-04-25T14:29:01Z To some, is a funny business; to others it's no laughing matter, and critics from Aristotle to Eric Bentley have attempted to explain and define it. Ted – review 2012-08-04T23:05:27Z Marsden said: "We don't really know why it was attributed to Aristotle but one possibility is that they were just trying to make it sound better or more worthy than it might have been." Formerly banned sex manual to go under the hammer in Edinburgh 2013-01-03T18:02:57Z And he quotes the eternally helpful words of philosophers like Seneca and Aristotle. Theater Review: Martin Moran’s ‘All the Rage’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-01-31T03:00:51Z By contrast, his student Aristotle, interested in examining the world around him and trying to explain it, is a better fit as a precursor to the modern-day scientist. Has Physics Lost Its Way? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The texts, which change daily, are by authors from Aristotle to Charles Darwin to the poet Ann Lauterbach, whose names are posted at the entrance. Art Review: Ann Hamilton at the Park Avenue Armory 2012-12-06T23:27:44Z Now that follow-up is finally here with Sáenz’s new book, “Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World,” and it was worth the wait. Three Y.A. Novels About the Challenges and Charms of Growing Up 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The “theory” Sontag is referring to—how Aristotle countered Plato’s idea that art was useless by suggesting that its true utility might be in inciting and placating our emotions—is, of course, limiting. Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The book's roster of notable predecessors starts with Aristotle. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z For Aristotle, happiness is the end or goal, not the motive for our actions. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Mrs. Onassis incorporated Design Works fabrics into the Fifth Avenue apartment she shared with her husband, Aristotle. Some of Jackie O.’s Favorite Fabrics are Back on the Market 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Plato and Aristotle parted ways over these questions. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z In Pinter's version, this is followed by a bored silence, broken only by the Provost observing laconically: "I'm surprised to hear Aristotle is on the syllabus in the state of Wisconsin." Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z A man of wide-ranging interests, he quoted or paraphrased Stanley Kubrick, Charles Eames, Albert Einstein, Timothy Snyder, Aristotle and Stephen Sondheim in the course of an 80-minute conversation. Christoph Waltz Has Some Thoughts 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Aldus was the first to print Aristotle, Thucydides, Herodotus and Sophocles, among others in the Greek canon. A Grolier Club Tribute to the Printer Aldus Manutius 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He tells us that Aristotle “deemed a freak a lusus naturae, an aberration of the Natural Ladder.” Who Were the Original Siamese Twins? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “The last Rembrandt that is comparable to this one is the ‘Aristotle’ that sold in 1961 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Rembrandt Portraits May Come Home, for Record Price, With Government Help 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Number two: “Review all your relationships”, which should all be based “on full-blown reciprocal trust”, according to Aristotle. How Aristotle is the perfect happiness guru 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z In describing his idea of a perfect narrative form, Aristotle would have loved to have had examples of modern courtroom dramas at his disposal. Louise Doughty: rereading the best courtroom dramas 2013-06-21T18:00:01Z A small side table holds busts of Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Freud, and the eleventh-century Persian philosopher Avicenna. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Aristotle, one of Nick Butler’s darlings, might have lectured Kerouac about pathos. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z As the avatar of virtue ethics and its popular exponent Aristotle, Spider-Man tries to exemplify the best character traits of his mentors while aiming to be the best hero he can be. Captain America: Civil War – conflicted heroes and a clash of philosophies 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z But I do believe in the kind of poetic truth Aristotle speaks about. Jordi Savall Evokes the Past by Hearing Its Music 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z We live in an age of passionate intensity, when the ideal of moderation seems as dead as Aristotle, when everything must be “game-changing” or contribute to our national “conversation” about this or that. Review | The timely message in Christopher Buckley’s historical novel 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Aristotle defined politics as “matters relating to the collective,” and Freud delineated society as containing three elements — the family, the state, and social norms. My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z It was Aristotle who came up with the big 'therefore'. Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' 2011-07-12T20:30:03Z While it is relatively easy to represent blindness by introducing a character such as Aristotle in 1982, who teaches Big Bird about braille, race is more of a challenge. Autistic Julia joins Bert, Ernie and Abby Cadabby in championing Muppet diversity 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z In the Flatiron neighborhood of New York City, Aristotle Torres draws style inspiration from his childhood. Intersection: Flatiron Functionality 2014-04-29T11:25:40Z Aristotle was, as far as I know, a man. Critic’s Notebook: NickMom, a Late-Night Programming Block on Nick Jr. 2012-11-08T22:51:46Z These idiosyncratic, fashionable elements persuasively whispering Cher matter far more than whether the show’s narrative framework will make Aristotle wake up and notice. Perspective | Are jukebox musicals like ‘The Cher Show’ dumbing down Broadway, or just giving us what we want? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Aristotle has taught audiences about braille and demonstrates that his visual impairment doesn't hold him back from participating in everyday activities with his friends. 16 Muppets who moved to “Sesame Street," from Ji-Young to Abby Cadabby 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Finally, he ends by adjusting the quote attributed to Aristotle so that it refers to “my democratic friends.” What Jacques Derrida Understood About Friendship 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Philosophers and naturalists from Aristotle to Linnaeus were fascinated by the eel's apparent lack of reproduction. Eels have fascinated us for ages. Here's why we need to stop eating them 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z “He was the first person,” Leith writes of Aristotle, “really to grasp that the study of rhetoric is the study of humanity itself.” “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z Enticements from the new Met guide: “Hypocrite and Slanderer,” above; “Kneeling Bull Holding a Spouted Vessel,” right; and “Aquamanile Depicting Aristotle and Phyllis.” Critic?s Notebook: Metropolitan Museum of Art?s New Guidebook 2012-04-12T22:29:38Z In his review, Gill said that publishing the book as a classic "doesn't diminish Aristotle or Homer or Tolstoy; it just roundly mocks Morrissey." Morrissey mauling wins Hatchet Job review prize 2014-02-12T00:26:27Z By integrating the ideas of many of the world’s great thinkers—Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, Spinoza, and others—he has found “a third way, beyond atheism and religion, to the God of the modern world.” The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Aristotle, who linked his theory of color harmony to musical harmony, isn’t the only notable making an appearance in the show. ‘Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color’ Review: Vibrant From Any Angle 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Plato's student Aristotle, by contrast, denied that there even was a proper afterlife for the soul. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z There are probably worse ways to spend one’s time, but according to Hall’s Aristotle there are also far better ways to approach life. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The second book, or so we glean from other references in Aristotle, brought the reader back to comedy and to that tricky problem of laughter. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Aristotle’s “Poetics,” which Abrams read in high school, made her think about plot, character and pacing. Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z "The great philosophical writers of the past wrote for humanity," Blackburn begins, enumerating Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Mill and even Wittgenstein. Philosophy is supposed to be difficult 2011-02-25T12:01:28Z He illuminates his case studies by quoting authorities as diverse as Aristotle, Kierkegaard, and Tina Brown. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Aristotle knew about as much about how babies are made as a curious but confused schoolboy. ArtsBeat: Jill Lepore Talks About Life, Death and the Stages in Between 2012-06-06T21:29:46Z According to Aristotle, their plight so affected the Spartans — the famously fierce warriors of the Trojan War — that they fasted for a day and donated the saved money to the refugees. On Samos, Aesop’s Fabled Isle, a Mix of Greeks, Migrants and Tourists 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z They read Aristotle’s “Poetics,” agreed on a loose definition of what made a play and determined a collective approach to theme and character. No Script, No Roles: It’s No Problem for the Actors of ‘Stolen House’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Eames uses the word "catharsis" to describe the desired result of the inception, a term that whose dramatic lineage goes back to Aristotle. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z Although the writings of Plato and Aristotle are more famous, another ancient school of philosophy, Stoicism, cultivated an interest in music's therapeutic potential. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z To paraphrase Aristotle, we should ask three questions of a work of art to see if it can be considered great. The art of David Ortiz: Is Big Papi himself a work of art? Let’s consult the experts 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and earlier Greek philosophers did wonder what the world was made of. ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z Aristotle said that the “Iliad” was a poem in which things happened to people, while the “Odyssey” was a poem of character. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Was it Plato or Aristotle who said something about all life being change? Theater Review: ‘Somewhere Fun,’ by Jenny Schwartz, at Vineyard Theater 2013-06-05T02:00:01Z Speaking of Aristotle, he divided the “ages of man” into three: youth, the prime of life and old age. ArtsBeat: Jill Lepore Talks About Life, Death and the Stages in Between 2012-06-06T21:29:46Z Aristotle’s dictum that action is character, this great sequence narrows the focus to Dom’s attempt to disable Letty’s car without hurting her. Furious 6: Faster, Crazycars! Thrill Thrill! 2013-05-20T16:47:36Z Aristotle used one to observe the moon eclipsing the sun, while during the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci studied optics and perspective with the help of the device. Staring Into the Soul of the Catskills Through a Pinhole 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Many recent episodes have focused on happiness lessons from the ancients, hitting up Aristotle, the Buddha and Confucius and extrapolating lessons about how to live a fulfilled life in the modern age. 7 Podcasts to Soothe Your Back-to-Normal Anxiety 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z From the time of Aristotle to the fall of the Roman Empire, botanical research and discovery went on much as they did in Bury’s day. Art Review: ‘Gardening by the Book’ Celebrates Rare Botanical Volumes 2013-06-13T21:26:09Z They suggest, as Aristotle argued, that happiness is best achieved indirectly, as a byproduct of other objectives. The myths of happiness 2013-03-31T21:00:00Z Nerdy, yes, but didn’t Aristotle say that “All men” — all human beings — “by nature desire to know”? He might have added that all adolescents are know-it-alls. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z And recently such leading scholars as Quentin Skinner have mourned its disappearance: if only we had Aristotle's essay on comedy, writes Skinner, we would understand ancient laughter. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z “Book of Optics” gathered all the available knowledge of the field at the time: Galen’s study of the eye, Euclid’s and Ptolemy’s treatises on geometry, Aristotle’s suppositions about the soul. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z At the age of 16, Alexander’s education under Aristotle ended and his literal world domination began. Six teenagers who rocked the world 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z It seemed that the only time Aristotle was mentioned was in defense of slavery. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z “Identity exists where the Complication and Unraveling are the same,” wrote Aristotle in his treatise on literary theory, “Poetics.” These Two Really Funny Debuts Both Start With a Dead Body 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z What did Pytho think of the husband Aristotle chose for her? The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon – review 2013-01-17T09:00:01Z In our culture, virtuous moderation and prudence rarely sell but, taking her cues from Aristotle, Hall offers a set of reasons to explain why they should. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Garber begins with Aristotle, whose conception of character contrasts with our modern idea of an inward, fixed essence. What Is Your True ‘Character’? And Who’s to Judge It? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Even Lawrence, an academic specializing in Aristotle, isn’t immune to self-involvement. | 'We Live Here: ?We Live Here? by Zoe Kazan at City Center - Review 2011-10-13T02:01:11Z One of our recommended titles this week — “Aristotle’s Way,” by Edith Hall — posits that the path to happiness lies through moderation in all things. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Rob Grant’s “Harpoon” opens with a voice-over paraphrasing Aristotle: Some friendships, the philosopher theorized, are maintained out of convenience, some for pleasure, some for fulfillment. ‘Harpoon’ Review: Three Friends, One Yacht, Copious Blood 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Its problem, as a mission statement, is not that it’s symptomatic of our self-help culture; Aristotle saw narrative as therapeutic, too. Riff: ?Why Write Novels at All?? 2012-01-13T22:19:00Z So the enthymeme version of that would be "Aristotle is a man, therefore Aristotle is mortal." A talk with Benjamin Apple, 'Cubed' star, 'comedy person' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s the perfect metaphor for Netflix-era humans, whom Aristotle would have called “incontinent” in their desires: wanting more and more of the same, with no patience or self-control. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z A more this-worldly religion such as Judaism is perfectly suited to a philosopher who made her name in The Fragility of Goodness by defending the practical ethics of Aristotle over the metaphysical supernaturalism of Plato. Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance 2012-06-29T21:55:17Z First, he explains the Greek view of life, as it was expressed by Aristotle; then he describes the Judeo-Christian view, as espoused by Augustine and Aquinas; finally, he explores atheism. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Named after the Greek philosopher, Aristotle is a blind Muppet on "Sesame Street." 16 Muppets who moved to “Sesame Street," from Ji-Young to Abby Cadabby 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Yet even the least acquaintance with the thought of Aristotle, Spinoza or Kant more than repays the effort. Review | A new book for ‘those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Simplicity, for one thing – what Aristotle called the unity of place. Why prisons hold playwrights captive 2011-02-23T15:27:28Z Aristotle wrote that representing "probable" characters and events is key to aesthetic success. Why sensitivity readers matter – and should be paid properly 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obamaby Sam Leith It's a considerable thing to deliver a speech that is at once artfully put together and emotionally affecting. The genius of Jodie Foster's speech 2013-01-14T16:48:00Z Instead I read Edith Hall’s “Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life,” and concluded I probably didn’t have to undergo some painful — and therefore temporary — transformation to remake my life. Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z “Plato, his teacher, said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. Aristotle would say the unplanned life is slightly less likely to be happy. It’s planning. Just planning.” How Aristotle is the perfect happiness guru 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Whether he knew it or not, he had paraphrased Aristotle's doctrine of tragic catharsis: we are purged and exalted by watching someone else's mental distress and physical torment. Pl?cido Domingo: 'I am a very happy man, but I love to suffer on stage' 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z A couple of pages might see the narrative breeze through the Oracle of Delphi, the philosophy of Aristotle, the fiction of Gogol, and the essays of Montaigne. Anatomies: The Human Body, Its Parts and the Stories They Tell by Hugh Aldersey-Williams – review 2013-02-28T08:00:01Z He invokes thinkers from Aristotle to Zeno — though interestingly not Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the author of “Émile,” a famous treatise on education. In ‘Nasty, Brutish, and Short,’ Kids Say the Most Epistemological Things 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z But it was also she who persuaded Mrs. Onassis to find a job, suggesting a career in book publishing, after Aristotle Onassis died, and to give an interview about it to Ms. Magazine. Death of Letitia Baldrige Is Loss for Society as Decorum Fades 2012-11-05T18:32:08Z He regrouped, recited the Aristotle quote, “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies,” and asked Ms. Porter to be his wife. Conservative and a Vegan in New York. Wait! You Are, Too? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The group would spend weeks aboard Aristotle Onassis's yacht traversing the Greek isles. Two tragedies: Why Jackie Kennedy was already mourning before JFK's fatal visit to Dallas 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z To understand how unicorns could migrate into our most objective fields of study, we must first look to tenets laid down by Aristotle more than 2,300 years ago. A Married Bachelor Proves That Unicorns Exist 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z There is a reason Aristotle and Jefferson both recognized the dangers to democracy of large concentrations of wealth. "Highly connected": How the right's political violence relates to a rise in criminal violence 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z While males were seen as whole and pristine, the female body was historically thought of "in terms of incompleteness or inversion," according to an analysis of Greek texts, including Aristotle. The history of the word "vagina" illuminates our persistent problem with biased reproductive health 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z But soon the two are separated, with Dante heading to Chicago with his parents for a year, and Aristotle left to fend for himself with the gossips and gangbangers at school. Review: ‘Aristotle and Dante’ a powerful coming-of-age story 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Aristotle, for example, thought that heavenly bodies were made of a theoretical form of matter called aether and naturally moved in circles. Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Because of Aristotle’s law, the contradiction cannot stand, so the liar paradox and hundreds of other known paradoxes beg for resolutions. A Married Bachelor Proves That Unicorns Exist 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Silu Zuo and Aristotle Sun, who have visited Hawaii several times, said it was great to see the community putting together the event. Lynnwood luau celebrates Hawaiian culture, gathers donations for relief 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Aristotle documented using a pinhole method to safely view an eclipse in the 4th century BC. Here’s what happens to your eyes if you look directly at the sun 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z But that queerness is also laced with danger and violence, in forms that hit too close to home for Aristotle. Review: ‘Aristotle and Dante’ a powerful coming-of-age story 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Those with mental illnesses murmur among Homer, Virgil and Aristotle. Narcan, rare books and citizenship: How L.A.'s chief librarian is meeting the city's needs 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The earliest recorded observation was from Aristotle, who spotted reddish patches on Mount Olympus in the 4th century B.C. Algae blooms that cause pink snow could accelerate melting as Earth warms 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z This is consistent with Aristotle’s debunked theory of physics, which did not account for the effects of Newton’s first law of motion. Here’s What Physics Tells Us about Barbie’s World 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z When we spoke in Santa Fe in 2012, McCarthy made clear that he admired Aristotle, whose encyclopedic treatises ranged from physics to logic to ethics to biology. Cormac McCarthy’s Work Is Rooted in Science 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Sáenz is a poet, and his lyricism is reflected in his prose, littered throughout the film in Aristotle’s narration and Dante’s letters. Review: ‘Aristotle and Dante’ a powerful coming-of-age story 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Over the course of the eleventh century, translations of Aristotle’s work on formal philosophical logic reemerged in Europe. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle was the ancient world’s greatest intellectual overachiever. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the texts they brought were the complete works of Plato and copies of Aristotle’s works in the original Greek. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Aristotle was interesting and systematic, but he never created anything with the extraordinary richness and depth of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Cormac McCarthy’s Work Is Rooted in Science 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z We seem to watch Pelayo as Aristotle grow up on screen before our very eyes, while Gonzales as Dante serves as the emotional anchor even though his presence is often ephemeral. Review: ‘Aristotle and Dante’ a powerful coming-of-age story 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Enterprising scholars — many of them Jewish philosophers who lived in North Africa and Spain — translated Aristotle’s work on logic from Arabic into Latin. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z They relied on Aristotle and accounts by other ancient authors to explain how the universe functioned, how physics operated, and how the human body regulated itself. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the arrival of Byzantine scholars and their copies of Plato and Aristotle, Italian humanists had focused primarily on the study of rhetoric and ethics. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z It’s easy to see McCarthy as a sort of Plato among the Aristotles of the Santa Fe Institute. Cormac McCarthy’s Work Is Rooted in Science 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s a traditional teenage growing-up story, filled with angst and crushes and family discord as lonely Aristotle grapples with his identity in relationship to others. Review: ‘Aristotle and Dante’ a powerful coming-of-age story 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Aristotle: And what is the problem with that? Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Following Newton, figures like Aristotle and Ptolemy were increasingly regarded in the manner they are today: important individuals in the history of thought, especially philosophy, but not sources of accurate scientific information. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Access to Plato’s complete works changed that, and many scholars were influenced by Byzantine Neoplatonism, an intellectual movement that sought to synthesize the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoic philosophers, and Arabic philosophy. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Aristotle called the hand the “tool of tools”; Kant, “the visible part of the brain.” In Ancient Egypt, Severed Hands Were Spoils of War 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Aristotle’s world tilts on his axis when he meets Dante at the swimming pool during the aforementioned magic moment. Review: ‘Aristotle and Dante’ a powerful coming-of-age story 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z How little geography these figures knew — though yes, Aristotle did his best to travel a bit. Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Likewise, with the explosion of new translations of classical works, it became clear that ancient scholars had actively debated and even rejected the teachings of figures like Aristotle. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greek philosopher Aristotle had stressed the study of the world through direct observation, a method known as empiricism. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Donahue said a return to the “natural law” common to Aristotle’s and St. Thomas Aquinas’ works is a way forward. Catholic author says ‘elites’ threaten American dream with ‘War on Virtue’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Every time we write a play, we’re talking back to Aristotle: We shape the clay of our own work by responding to colleagues who are no longer with us. For Two Playwrights, a Connection That Began When One Made the Other Cry 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z These included Aristotle’s treatises discussing democracy and the relation between living a virtuous life and happiness, as well as what it means to be alive. Opinion | As Black educators, we endorse classical studies 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Plato’s most gifted student was Aristotle, who founded his own institution of learning, the Lyceum, after he was passed over to lead the Academy following Plato’s death. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The Carthaginian republic was singled out for praise by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, who considered it the perfect balance between monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z "This crime will not be forgotten," a note on a makeshift memorial at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki reads. After fatal Greek train crash, a campus simmers with rage 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z But in the 13th century Thomas Aquinas baptized into Christian theology Aristotle’s idea that the soul is the “substantial form” of every living body, meaning the soul accounts for the properties of that particular “substance.” Review | Explaining spiritual experiences through a scientific lens 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The leaflets were highly literary, often citing writers and philosophers including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Plato and Aristotle, as well as the Bible. Traute Lafrenz Page, member of White Rose anti-Nazi resistance, dies at 103 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Aristotle broke sharply with his teacher over the essential doctrine of his teaching. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the Neoplatonists did not value Aristotle’s empiricism, they did not completely cast his ideas aside. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z A memorial service was conducted for 12 students of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University, Greece’s largest, who were killed in the train crash. Thousands take part in new Greece protest over train crash 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z The group’s fliers, quoting from Goethe, Schiller, Aristotle, Lao Tzu and the Bible, urged passive resistance and sabotage of the Nazi project. Traute Lafrenz, Last Survivor of Anti-Hitler Group, Dies at 103 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Several of the crash victims were students at the city’s Aristotle University, Greece’s largest, with over 50,000 students.. Stationmaster charged in Greece train crash that killed 57 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z If there was a single event that changed education and scholarship in the late Middle Ages, it was the arrival of the lost works of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z One of his most famous pupils was Aristotle, who came to disagree with his teacher and believed that ideas and forms could not exist independently of the material universe. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z She and Mr. Frost had met at a party in 1968 and were an item for a year or two, attending dinners with boldface names like Aristotle and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Bernadette Carey Smith, 83, Black Reporter in Mostly White Newsrooms, Dies 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Anastasia Papaggeli, 18, a student of agriculture at the city’s Aristotle University, the country’s largest, is among those missing after the crash. Train Crash Turns Holiday Trips Into Tragedy for Young Greeks 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Aristotle told us this over 2,000 years ago with the pathos argument, the appeal to emotion, not just to logos, but to pathos. MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan: You need "rhetorical judo" to challenge the far right 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Aristotle was one of the greatest geniuses of the ancient world, producing learned works on philosophy, astronomy, physics, biology, literary criticism and, most importantly for medieval Europe, logic. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In 334 BCE, Aristotle founded his own school at a different gymnasium in Athens, the Lyceum, where his students focused on the reasoned study of the natural world. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But as Aristotle says at the beginning of his “Ethics,” everyone wants what is good. We could use George Orwell’s help today with the war on ‘woke’ 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The virtual Greek philosopher Aristotle gracefully quoted Socrates, Cleopatra the historic Egyptian ruler asked for the blessing of the gods, Madonna cited her perspective as a mother and a woman in entertainment. ChatGPT bot channels history to pen State of Union speech 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The virtual Greek philosopher Aristotle gracefully quoted Socrates, Cleopatra the historic Egyptian ruler asked for the blessing of the gods, Madonna cited her perspective as a mother and a woman in the entertainment industry. ChatGPT bot channels history to pen State of Union speech 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Some of Aristotle’s works had survived in Europe after the fall of Rome, but most of it had vanished. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Beginning in 776 BCE, according to Aristotle, Greeks traveled to Olympia every four years to compete in athletic contests in Zeus’s honor, the origin of the Olympic Games. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Sherman said that Aristotle was all about eudaemonia. Perspective | Don’t worry, be happy? Easy for you to say. 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The source of that moral theory was Aristotle, inspired by his teacher, Plato, though neither used the term “natural law.” Opinion | America as a Christian nation? It’s complicated. 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Since Socrates taught Plato and Plato taught Aristotle, humanity has known that the best education is delivered one-to-one by an experienced educator. Is A.I. the Future of Test Prep? 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Over the course of the eleventh century, translations of Aristotle’s work on formal philosophical logic re-emerged in Europe. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z They modeled this on Aristotle’s Lyceum, as a center for scientific research and literary studies. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “It really means flourishing, doing well, or as Aristotle says, faring well,” Sherman said. Perspective | Don’t worry, be happy? Easy for you to say. 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z For Aristotle, those yearnings are much richer than found in the over-biologized natural law ethics of some later proponents. Opinion | America as a Christian nation? It’s complicated. 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z One message focused on first principles thinking, a worldview based on the teachings of Aristotle to reduce assumptions to basic axioms, which Mr. Musk credited with helping him make difficult decisions. Musk Shakes Up Twitter’s Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The importance of this rediscovery of Aristotle is that his work on logic offered a formal system for evaluating complicated bodies of work like the Christian Bible itself. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The philosophical schools of Plato and Aristotle, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, the plays of Athenian dramatists, and the art of Greek sculptors, architects, and painters have inspired European thinkers and artists for centuries. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Most political theorists, including Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Karl Polanyi and Max Weber, started from the premise that there is a natural antagonism between owners and workers. Rail strike bill: Both sides do it — wage relentless war against the working class, that is 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z I’ve been following Lear for the last few decades, since reading his short book on Aristotle when I was a college freshman. Review | Out of unbearable loss, a vision of radical hope 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Ancient Greeks such as Aristotle and Hippocrates helped popularize the theory. Blood, bile, melancholy and phlegm: Medicine in Shakespeare’s day 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z This was a far cry from the earnest inquiry of a Socrates, a Plato, or an Aristotle in trying to establish a virtuous form of politics. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle does the day-to-day work running PredictIt, and the university has been playing a passive role. Forecasting the Future of Election Prediction Markets 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z |
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