Aristotle sets the example that Thomas Aquinas follows in the Summa. We are reading chapters viii and ix of Book IX of the Nicomachean Ethics. The Philosopher makes the best case against two positions that he ultimately argues for:
In “Sanity” I used a photo of the same skeletal building from the other side
Does this sound like Aristotle?
It might seem like it’s easier to love others than to love yourself, but it’s tough to build healthy relationships if you don’t love yourself first.
The sentence is from a WikiHow page, “How to Love Yourself: Treat Yourself Like Your Own Best Friend.” Back in in the 1970s, I thought something like it was an excuse for self-indulgence.
Atatürk City Forest
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
According to the last three chapters of Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics:
There’s a trashbag nearby, but the people who drank beer here (in small cans, but a high proportion of alcohol, 9%): I assume they are boys, and they are used to being cleaned up after by their mothers
Şalcıkır Parkı, Tarabya
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Amity is equality, as Rackham translates it:
ΦΙΛΟΤΗΣ ΙΣΟΤΗΣ.
That’s what they say, anyway (§ v.5). Aristotle only refines it (§ viii.5):
ἡ δ᾽ ἰσότης καὶ ὁμοιότης φιλότης.
equality and similarity is amity.
Of eight readings on amity, or friendship, or love, or philia, we are in our second, comprising chapters v–viii of Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics.
Tarabya Marina
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Polytropy 