Aristotle

It is this branch of politics which Aristotle discusses in his _Ethics_. He never contemplates a study of the individual's good apart from politics, the study of the good of the...

*Grades of Psychical Life*.--If we consider the order of development, we find that some vital activities make their appearance earlier than others, and that it is a universal la...

The end for which the state exists is not merely its own self-perpetuation. As we have seen, Aristotle assigns a higher value to the life of the student than to the life of prac...

*Induction*.--Of the use of "induction" in Aristotle's philosophy we shall speak under the head of "Theory of Knowledge." Formally it is called "the way of proceeding from parti...

The treatment of time is more thoughtful. Time is inseparably connected with movement or change. We only perceive that time has elapsed when we perceive that change has occurred...

Two more remarks may be made in this connection. (1) The prominence of the notion of "end" gives Aristotle's philosophy a thorough-going "ideological" character. God and Nature,...

It has not commonly been the lot of philosophers, as it is of great poets, that their names should become household words. We should hardly call an Englishman well read if he ha...

First Philosophy is defined by Aristotle as a "science which considers What Is simply in its character of Being, and the properties which it has as such." That there is, or ough...

We proceed to the question how many subdivisions there are within "theoretical" Philosophy itself. Plato had held that there are none. All the sciences are deductions from a sin...

36. The Growth of Freedom . . . By H. W. Nevinson. 37. Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire . . . By Professor F. M. Powicke. 38. Oliver Cromwell . . . By Hilda Johnston...