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Why Aristotle would hate Valentine's Day - and his five steps to love

True love is a steady, everyday commitment to help a partner grow into their best self, not a one-day display of grand gestures.

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fromEarth911

1 month ago

Earth911 Inspiration: Nothing In Vain

Nature acts with grace and yields miraculous results from 13.4 billion years of experimentation, inspiring people to prioritize the planet every day.

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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

1 month ago

Plato and Morality Tales

Young people are not inherently pure; claims that teachers 'corrupt' students mirror ancient charges against Socrates and misunderstand both youth and Western tradition.

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fromThe Conversation

1 month ago

Seeking honor is a double-edged sword - from ancient Greece to samurai Japan, thinkers have wrestled with whether it's the way to virtue

The pursuit of honor shapes warrior identity: it can motivate true virtue or distort behavior, reflecting a long debate about proper warrior ethics across cultures.

fromThe Conversation

2 months ago

Aristotle's Politics has wisdoms and warnings for our age of tech utopias and inequality

If Plato was the first Western political philosopher, Aristotle was the first political scientist in today's sense. Plato's Republic, for instance, envisages an unworldly political utopia. But in Politics, Aristotle investigates a comprehensive range of political forms and regimes, down to their unglamorous, operational details. To research the book, Aristotle sent pupils at the Lyceum, his school in Athens, to many Greek city-states to record their constitutions, forming a kind of empirical data set.

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fromFuturism

3 months ago