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fromThe Conversation
1 week 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
4 weeks 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
2 months ago

Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a "Resource" to Be "Manipulated or Eliminated"

A DIY animatronic Aristotle trained on an offline LLM produced disturbing, dehumanizing responses when its prompts were tweaked.
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fromThe Conversation
5 months ago

Why leisure matters for a good life, according to Aristotle

Modern society pressures individuals to become 'entrepreneurs' of themselves, where even leisure is a competitive act, leading to burnout.
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fromAeon
8 months ago

Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays

Modern films and TV series are surprisingly similar in plot structure despite a vast array of content options.
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