Search results for "Aristotle"
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Movimento, anima, intelletto. Dal De anima al De motu animalium di Aristotele
2014
Choice to be Happy: Rhythm of Flourishing in Aristotle's Ethics
2019
Aristotle’s Concept of Friendship and Plato’s Structure of Human Soul
2018
Prote Hyle. Notions of Matter in the Platonic and Aristotelian Traditions
2017
How do we experience matter? Does it present itself to the senses? Or is it only an empty substratum that cannot be grasped if deprived of all sensible qualities? Is it perceived as a continuum, or rather intellectually reconstructed through mental and logical forms? Or is it that the very idea of a continuum is itself the outcome of mental abstraction? The nature of matter has been a central issue for philosophy since its inception. The constant oscillation of ancient thought between ma er as indeterminateness that does not have a concept and does not even properly exist - and matter as a principle that allows one to think plurality and otherness, that reaches even into the realm of the in…
Materia y forma en Agudeza y arte de ingenio
2009
[Resumen] Este trabajo se propone estudiar la importancia del esquema hilemórfico en la descripción del proceso de creación de las agudezas. Al acudir al marco teórico del compuesto de materia y de forma que domina la metafísica de Aristóteles, Gracián procura definir con la mayor precisión posible la génesis del sentido: cada concepto creado es un acto único que se apoya en un proceso de individuación. La forma confiere sabrosa y a veces lúdicamente a los objetos del lenguaje su unicidad. Sin embargo, la Agudeza, por la jerarquización de formas discursivas que presenta a su lector, impide toda lectura unívoca y reductora de la utilización de estos dos conceptos: cada forma creada parece so…
Verbs and Predicates in Ancient Greece
2019
The author starts by reading an excerpt by Symplicius of Cilicia where it is said that Aristotle spoke of the category action established as mere action and taken as a genus. This category was connected with dispositions of the mind corresponding to verbs. Equally there existed mere affection too. It is precisely the verbs that could convey either action or affection, and the two categories action and affection were drawn from the active and passive verbs. These verbs, however, are not the same as those called upright and overturned by the Stoics. While Aristotle took mere action and mere affection into account, the Stoics were interested in predicates, and predicates definitely correspond …
Review: George Anagnostopoulos, A Companion to Aristotle
2011
Are Humans Poor at Arguing? From the ‘Argumentative Theory of Reasoning’ back to a Rhetorical Theory of Argumentation
2018
Starting from Sperber and Mercier’s theory (2011) on the relationship between reasoning and arguing, we will try to rethink the link between rhetoric and argumentation. Using Aristotelian rhetoric as a theoretical framework, we will focus on two related features: 1) the nature and the role of argumentation inferences in classical models of rhetoric; 2) the role of normativity in assessing a naturalistic description of what we make when we argue.
Rhetorical deliberation. A sustainable normativism from a Gorgianic-Aristotelian perspective
2018
Starting from the discursive turn that has characterized democracy since the 80s of the last century, our article tries to outline a form of sustainable normativism. To do this, we use a theoretical framework derived from ancient Greek rhetoric and in particular from the reflection of Gorgias and Aristotle. In our perspective, on the one hand, the Gorgianic view is a useful reminder of the role that the pursuit of power and the possibility of conflict unavoidably play in the form of argumentation specific to the public sphere, that is, deliberation. On the other hand, Aristotle, thanks to his emphasis on the link between logos and desire and his analysis of truth available in deliberative c…
Obiecta, opposita, antikeimena nel De anima di Aristotele
2012
The word antikéimena is often translated by modern editors of De anima with the expression "correlative objects", rather than as "opposites". The aim of this paper is to present some arguments against this translation, insomuch as it disregards the link established with the concept of opposition between De anima and the Aristotelian theory of motion and change.