In regard to libertarians who argue that they are kingdoms onto themselves, the essay points to what is missing from their view: If the 'freedom' of i...
You just made a distinction between people who are greedy or not by your lights. I am reading what you are writing. You say it is okay for some to wan...
Regardless of the ways your judgement may turn regarding Socrates' proposal of the Just City, that regime differs from the other four by not being an ...
This formulation is strikingly different from Rand's epistemology. She celebrates a selfishness of ranking what is worthwhile for oneself above other ...
In keeping with the Polis and the individual being seen as parallel lives, the change from one kind of regime to another is traced by the type of man ...
In Maslow's theory of motivation, gratification of basic needs is not isolated from the cognitive activity necessary for a healthy organism. While the...
It is difficult to sort out these various models. How they get used to promote different policies makes them a player in a way that does not answer th...
I figure some thoughts take more words than others. As Horace said back in the day: "I wish to be brief, but I become obscure." One can become prolix ...
Good inclusion to the mater. In opposition to the theories of motivation, there was the view of Behaviorism, of the Pavlovion sort, that focused upon ...
When I read Maslow, it was in the context of exploring different models of childhood development. In that dynamic, the minimum conditions for an exper...
True enough. But that observation is not the same as saying that the moral values needed to be an ethical person can be derived from oneself first and...
The value of self-sufficiency, as the highest good for the philosopher, is not the grounds for the conditions that require ethics. As Aristotle says i...
I haven't been arguing that. The references I have made point to how the good for oneself is interwoven with the good of others. The realm of the virt...
I wasn't claiming that someone other than an individual could be a virtuous person. The question is what those qualities are. They are described by Pl...
The Standford essay points to how difficult it is to separate the inquiries. I was hoping for a pithy reference to actual text to illuminate your poin...
You will have to show me where Plato decouples ethics and politics in the manner you propose. The passage I cited supports the idea that people should...
The passage does address the ethical issue of why the guardians should give up some portion of their pursuit of individual happiness for the greater g...
The principle of responsibilities to others was constantly set on the balance whereby the good of the individual was conditioned by the needs of the c...
The example given here: "Thus, morality is the self-generated body of behaviors designed for individual achievement of well-being and happiness." is a...
Maybe you guys should establish your own thread where you disagree with each other for time out of mind. You both want to monopolize what is being dis...
While I disagree with many parts of Metaphysician Undercover's reading of Aristotle, I also disagree with your penchant to decide what the different i...
That is an obvious observation of how it functions; Noticing that does not mean there is nothing else to be said. Its role in the building of our tech...
Money does play a big part in the exchange of commodities now. Agreeing it is not a replacement for fungible goods, as what the OP refers to as "real"...
I wasn't claiming one system replaced the other by necessity. I thought my comment was more in line with: The exchange of valued objects was still bas...
Money relates to a real exchange of commodities. As a system, it extends bartering where one is not required to have the items standing next to each o...
This inconsistency you refer to goes toward illuminating my inability to decipher what you think Aristotle is saying. You seem to be invested in claim...
There is an "indirectness" that also led to that expulsion. Arguing that the Unnamable One is not an agent we could gain or lose favor for our purpose...
This ignores the distinction between heavenly bodies and the "combined beings" of the sublunary sphere. The life of the latter is "ensouled" in a mate...
I am mulling the article you linked to. It is interesting in comparing ideas of motion and the first causes. But the universe Aristotle thought he liv...
Do you have any other evidence to support this observation? One Neo-Platonist, Plotinus, specifically objected to Aristotle's view of the Unmoved Move...
Gerson's emphasis upon "who is a Platonist" here is misplaced. Aristotle's objections to Plato were not a "penchant for introducing terminological inn...
But this view is controverted by experience. The love amongst family and friends is not a zero-sum game. My child will not benefit from demonstrations...
The matters are clear to you, so my objections are merely proof of my incapacity. I have no objection to that sort of rhetoric as such. I would have c...
One element I think about a lot is theater. There are plenty of different ways that display is important in animal behavior, Humans write scripts for ...
That is an interesting kind of via negativa, the agent has to be found through sifting the evidence for what is missing. That reminds me of the unknow...
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