#aristotle
love me some ancient Greek philosophy, so this happened
Percy
“He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have.” (Socrates)
“The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.” (Plato)
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.” (Aristotle)
Annabeth
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” (Socrates)
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” (Plato)
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” (Aristotle)
Jason
“Let him that would move the world first move himself.” (Socrates)
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the law.” (Plato)
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” (Aristotle)
Piper
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” (Socrates)
“Love is a serious mental disease.” (Plato)
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” (Aristotle)
Leo
“They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.” (Socrates)
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” (Plato)
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” (Aristotle)
Hazel
“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.” (Socrates)
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” (Plato)
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” (Aristotle)
Frank
“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in is service.” (Socrates)
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” (Plato)
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” (Aristotle)
Reyna
“When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” (Socrates)
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” (Plato)
“The law is reason, free from passion.” (Aristotle)
Nico
“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.” (Socrates)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” (Plato)
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” (Aristotle)
Rachel
“See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.” (Socrates)
“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.” (Plato)
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” (Aristotle)
I felt bad for not including Rachel in the last one because I love her character, so I made sure to put her in this one
Aristotle
Aristotle, 8.2 x 11.6 inches
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The artist’s hand is unlike any other. It moves with ease while also holding purpose and intent. The hand that holds the brush prepares for an elegant dance of vivid strokes. Delicate fingers reaching for the right tool, bending, snapping, stretching, fiddling. The impatient hand is fierce and relentless. An instrument of creation, operating with acute precision. Behold the hands, how they promise and entice. Conjuring an enchanting spell… Are you falling in love?
In his book “De Anima” (c. 350 BC), Aristotle explains, “It follows that the soul is analogous to the hand; for as the hand is a tool of tools, so the mind is the form of forms and sense the form of sensible things.” Hands are tools themselves by which we are able to utilize tools, in a similar way that the mind is a form by which we apprehend other forms. The artist’s hand brings forth life and love and lust. It conveys emotions and force and commands. Which makes the eyes envious of the artist’s hands.
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I love how Ancient Greek philosophers were basically all sporty buff wrestling guys. Modern philosophers are unathletic dweebs for the most part… I want to see them wrestle… Bring back buff bicep philosophy!!!
OK I’M SERIOUS IMAGINE A JORDAN PETERSON VS SLAVOJ ZIZEK WRESTLING MATCH.
I love how Ancient Greek philosophers were basically all sporty buff wrestling guys. Modern philosophers are unathletic dweebs for the most part… I want to see them wrestle… Bring back big buff bicep philosophy!!!
nobody:
not a soul:
herodotus: so. here’s the thing about horses. they’re TERRIFIED of camels, yeah? they can’t even look at them, they can’t even SMELL them…
happy early valentines kids
aristotle: *says something extremely misogynistic*
some white boy philosophy major:
ViaPhilosophy Break: ‘The 3 different levels of friendship, according to Aristotle over 2,000 years ago…
1. The friendship of utility. These friendships are based on what someone can do for you, or what you can do for another person. It might be that you put in a good word for someone, and they buy you a drink in return. Such relationships have little to do with character, and can end as soon as any possible use for you or the other person is removed from the equation.
2. The friendship of pleasure. These are the friendships based on enjoyment of a shared activity or the pursuit of fleeting pleasures and emotions. It might be someone you go for drinks with, but would never have over for dinner, and is a common level of association for the young, so Aristotle declared. This type of relationship can again end quickly, dependent as it is on people’s ever-changing likes and dislikes.
3. The friendship of virtue. These are the people you like for themselves, who typically influence you positively and push you to be a better person. This kind of relationship, based as it is on character, is a lot more stable than the previous two categories. While Aristotle laments the rarity of such pure, mutually appreciative relationships, he believes they are possible between two virtuous people who can invest the time and energy required to forge such a bond.
Aristotle established these levels of friendship in his Nicomachean Ethics, written around 350BC.
A masterpiece of moral philosophy, the Nicomachean Ethics contains Aristotle’s vision for how human beings can achieve eudaimonia, which is variously translated from Greek as ‘well-being’, ‘happiness’, ‘blessedness’, and in the context of the virtue ethics Aristotle endorsed, ‘human flourishing’.
While friendships of utility and pleasure have their place, working at elevating them to the coveted friendships of virtue is an important part of attaining such flourishing in our own lives, Aristotle believed.’
Alexander and Aristotle