Aristotle Philosophical Quotes — Page 20

Philosopher

Philosophical

“And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.”

Men Evil Unjust

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Philosophical

“For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.”

Real Animal Views

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Philosophical

“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”

Justice Self Centered

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Philosophical

“No science ever defends its first principles.”

Firsts Principles

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Philosophical

“These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.”

Two Soul Half

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Philosophical

“It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'”

Giving Teaching Plato

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Philosophical

“For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.”

Form Ethics Contemplation

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Philosophical

“Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.”

Art Action Causes

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Philosophical

“What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.”

People Men Running

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Philosophical

“The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.”

Choices Alive Abortion

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Philosophical

“Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.”

Children Science Nature

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Philosophical

“If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.”

Body Definitions Infinite

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