Tag Archives: Aristotle

Do We Need Human Rights?

I hate to say it’s all relative – but it seems to be the case when it comes to COVID. You see, depending on where you live, your experience of this pandemic has been completely different… from the government response… to your ability to move about… to the scale and fear of the daily numbers.

Written on September 21, 2020 at 8:51 pm, by plato

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Categories: Dialectics

Tags: Aristotle, human rights, robots, slave, universal

Mimesis: Aristotle vs. Plato on Poetry

Written by Visnja Bojovic, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom In a previous article, we discussed Aristotle’s inspiration to write the Poetics (a treatise on drama and literary theory), and the notion of catharsis that emerged as a result. As we concluded, it is highly probable that Aristotle’s treatise was written in response to Plato’s criticism of

Written on August 26, 2020 at 6:45 am, by Visnja Bojovic

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Categories: Aristotle

Tags: allegory of the cave, Aristotle, Mimesis, Philosophy, Plato, Plato's republic, Poetics, Poetry, The Republic

What is it to be Happy?

Time to stretch out the old noggin today, dear reader. We’ve got a philosophical inquiry on our hands proposed by our senior editor Alex Barrientos… one that I think we can all agree is probably the most important question we can ask. As such, I’ll get straight into it. “As for a topic I’d like

Written on August 3, 2020 at 9:54 pm, by plato

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Categories: Dialectics

Tags: Aristotle, Diogenes, Epicurus, Happiness

#CancelCulture: Lessons from the Ancient World (PART 2)

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Classical Wisdom for Modern Minds You remember our mandate. Here we believe classical wisdom can ring true for modern minds. The great minds of classical antiquity still have much to teach us. You need only show up to class. And if you’d like to know how this

Written on July 24, 2020 at 6:10 am, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Politics

Tags: Aristotle, Athenian Democracy, democracy, oligarchy, Plato, Plato's republic, tyranny

#CancelCulture: Lessons from the Ancient World

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Sometimes, late at night when we can hear the ocean outside our window, we wonder what the ancients would think of us… Would they be proud? Amused? Perplexed? Surely, we imagine, we won’t repeat ALL the mistakes of our classical forebearers. Somebody must have read Aristotle, Cicero,

Written on July 17, 2020 at 6:06 am, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Politics

Tags: Aristotle, democracy, Exile, Ostracism, Ovid, Politics, socrates, Socratic dialogue, Twitter

Aristotle: Happiness is an Activity

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom “For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous because we are more capable of continuous contemplation

Written on July 14, 2020 at 6:26 am, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Aristotle, Classical Ethics, ethical egoism, Ethics, Happiness, hedonism, Moral philosophy, Pleasure, Seneca, Stoic, Stoicism, Virtue, virtue ethics