Ancient Doctrines of Passions: Plato and Aristotle

Aristotle and Plato on Character

Little about Aristotle's chapter on the voluntariness of character (NE iii 5) is uncontroversial.l Some arguments Aristotle deploys are on their face formally invalid; the position he appears to defend has seemed so absufd that commentators have felt obliged to rescue him from it. Thus we find Susan Sauvd Meyer, Randall Curren, and Jean Roberts, amon&others, arguing that despite appearances Ari...

Relational Exploration - Reconciling Plato and Aristotle

We provide an interactive method for knowledge acquisition combining approaches from description logic and formal concept analysis. Based on present data, hypothetical rules are formulated and checked against a description logic theory. We propose an abstract framework (Logical Domain Exploration) for this kind of exploration technique before presenting a concrete instantiation: Relational Expl...

Aristotle Meets Plato in the Library Catalog

Research Libraries (CARL) approach the design and implementation of what the organizers of this clinic have called "user friendly" systems, to describe a bit the organizational and systems setting within which we work, outline some of the design principles that guide our development, and provide a brief overview of the system as it exists today. Part 2, by Ken Dowlin, will discuss the system in...

Reflections on Reading Plato and Aristotle at Lancaster

While serving as a Visiting Fellow at Lancaster University, I was asked to lead an informal seminar on Classical Philosophy. It was to be a reading group of postgraduate students and staff, focusing on two foundational texts of Western civilization: Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. I happily accepted. The resulting two-hour, weekly sessions over Michaelmas Term were lively t...

A. W. Price, Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle by Price, A. W. Review by: Susan Sauvé Meyer