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Aristotle on Mixed Economies

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:46:47 GMT

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A friend recently commented that he has found wisdom in moderation. He said it seems that truth and goodness are found not at the extremes, but at the place of balance between extremes.

As Aristotle wrote in his Nicomachean Ethics, "Virtue must have the quality of aiming at the intermediate." In Aristotle's examples, it is cowardice and recklessness that are the extremes, courage the middle ground.

My friend went on from this concept to state that he believed in neither socialism nor capitalism, but in a mixed economy — or what he called a "messy middle ground."

The true middle ground is to accept a capitalist system — i.e., avoid the extreme of coercion — and choose personally to care for and about others, and persuade them to do the same — i.e., avoid the extreme of neglect.

Attempting to find a middle ground between coercion and freedom is a bad idea.

Finding a middle ground between coercion and neglect is a good one.

Capitalism is the only system that allows for both of these.

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Quotes

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:52:46 GMT

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

-Aristotle

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honor & morality

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:15:01 GMT

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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them." - Aristotle

"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids." - Aristotle

Hapiness

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:35:36 GMT

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“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” - Aristotle

“If you want to be happy, be.” - Leo Tolstoy

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The History of Colour Systems

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:47:50 GMT

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"The law of proportion according to which the several colours are formed,
even if a man knew he would be foolish in telling, for he could not give any
necessary reason, nor indeed any tolerable or probable explanation of them."
Plato Timaeus

Pythagoras ~550BC

Aristotle ~350BC

Aron Sigfrid Forsius 1611

Athanasius Kircher 1646

Sir Isaac Newton 1704

Ignaz Schiffermüller 1772

Tobias Mayer 1775

Philipp Otto Runge 1810

Michel Eugène Chevreul 1839

Albert Henry Munsell 1915

Michel Albert-Vanel 1983

The above illustrations come from The Colour Museum (in english, french and german) which gives a reasonably detailed overview of the history of the human conceptualization of colour. Many of their images are originals but it's a little hard to be sure at times. I suspect the contents of the site doesn't rise to the level of 'scholarship' but it is actually pretty fascinating nonetheless.
The University of Mannheim have a modest selection of original book illustrations on this subject.
Wikipedia on color.

The Beginner’s Guide to Zen Habits - A Guided Tour

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:15:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle

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Compassion -or- Philosophy of windows into the soul

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:29:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Besides, the effectual truth of enlightened self-interest and the invocation of rights in service of that interest was hateful competition among men, not genuine co-operation. Ultimately commerce and all other such forms of competition serve the passion of amour-propre or vanity, which craves superiority over our fellows or inequality for its own sake. Rousseau thus presents the emergent liberal commercial society in which Montesquieu, Hume, and Smith invested such hopes as a lurid nightmare of strife, exploitation, and cruelty."

"Commerce makes men more alike while also multiplying inequalities among them. Montesquieu seized on the first of these facts to welcome commerce as a new dawn: whereas difference bred narrowness and hostility, sameness brought greater understanding. Rousseau, by contrast, stressed the second of these elements, presenting commerce as driving men apart even as it supposedly brought them together."

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As was already evident to Aristotle, we tend to pity most those who most resemble ourselves or whose misfortunes most resemble our own (Rhetoric II.viii.13–14). Like “identifies” readily with like, much less readily with unlike. This suggests that our pity for others is a vicarious expression of our fears for ourselves.

Moreover, those least able to bear the sufferings of others are commonly least able to bear their own (Republic 606a–c). But self-pity is a vice, not a virtue.

it would be mistaken to suppose that what Christianity taught was compassion.

A single and omnipotent God who, having become flesh, suffered all that flesh can suffer; a morality that begins in the contemplation of the Passion of this God-man, an injunction to universal charity as the supreme virtue — this was far indeed from the humanistic and aristocratic rationalism of the pagan philosophers. At the same time, Christian charity was also far from what we mean by compassion

Happiness Quotes

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:45:11 GMT

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Anonymous

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Josh Billings

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Aristotle

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:22:29 GMT

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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

luvi minos anadolu dna bağı

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:58:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Origins of Neolithic populations in Greece, based on Paternal DNA" has been published by the professor of Genetics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Mr. Triantafillidis, in cooperation with Uni's in US, Canada, Russia and Turkey.

He has identified DNS in 193 individuals from Cretan males and 171 from mainland Greece. sonuç minoslular Benall'ın dediği gibi afrikadan değil anadoludan (katimerini ana yani iran ırak suriye diyor çetin gibi!)

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Hesperia, Vol. 31, No. 3. (Jul. - Sep., 1962), pp. 284-309.

Anatomy: The Foundation of Medicine

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:27:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From Aristotle to Early Twentieth Century Wall Charts

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Anatomy: The Foundation of Medicine
From Aristotle to Early Twentieth Century Wall Charts

Starting with Aristotle and continuing with such greats as Hippocates, Galen, Leonardo da Vinci, Vesalius, and Albinus, this Web exhibit briefly traces the history of anatomical study and drawing. The essay relates the importance of numerous technical and artistic advancements as well as a cultural climate favorable to human dissection

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Hippocrates

The Hippocratic corpus catalogued in Alexandria's renowned library was a collection of works by Hippocrates himself and successor physicians practicing at his school on the eastern Aegean island of Kos

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a revival of interest in Galen's work resulted in Latin translations illustrated by imaginary scenes. Shown here is the dissection of a swine with more animals being bundled in on the right. Lint, p. 22.

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W. & A. K. Johnston's Charts of Anatomy and Physiology

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Culture of Vice - Robert Reilly

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:10:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Entrenched moral aberrations then impel people to rationalize vice not only to themselves but to others as well. Thus rationalizations become an engine for revolutionary change that will affect society as a whole. "

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In The Ethics Aristotle wrote, "men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives." This is also true when revolutionary changes are cultural. What might these "private" reasons be, and why do they become public in the form of revolutionary changes? The answer to these questions lies in the intimate psychology of moral failure.

For any individual, moral failure is hard to live with because of the rebuke of conscience. Habitual moral failure, what used to be called vice, can be lived with only by obliterating conscience through rationalization. When we rationalize, we convince ourselves that heretofore forbidden desires are permissible. We advance the reality of the desires over the reality of the moral order to which the desires should be subordinated. In our minds we replace the reality of moral order with something more congenial to the activity we are excusing. In short, we assert that bad is good.

Alexander The Great

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:27:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: he began to organize the territory into a realm such as he envisioned. His early death brought an end to his plans.

Alexander was born in Pella, capital of
Macedonia. His father was Philip II of Macedon, who had conquered Greece; his mother was Olympias, a princess from Epirus. Aristotle was Alexander's tutor, and the literature of Greece was his inspiration. The handsome youth took Achilles of Homer's Iliad, a reputed ancestor, as his hero. Alexander's teachers in military science were his father's generals. When he was only 16, he commanded forces in military actions against hill tribes.

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Alexander (III) the Great (356–323 B.C.), a king of Macedonia and Greece. Alexander conquered the entire Persian Empire, from the Aegean Sea to India and around the Mediterranean to Egypt. His conquests spread Greek culture over the Middle East and introduced the brilliant Hellenistic era of artistic, intellectual, and scientific accomplishment. Alexander was outstanding in personal courage, energy, and imagination. He became a legend in his own lifetime through the reports of the historian Callisthenes, who accompanied him on his great expedition. Many stories were told about Alexander's favorite steed, Bucephalus, and about exploits such as cutting the Gordian knot.

Alexander was not only a brilliant military strategist but also an able administrator. He saw the folly of the constant warfare among the Greek city-states and had a dream of uniting many peoples in a great common wealth. After his conquest of the Persian Empire,

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