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…ment,” q., 41.1. *IThomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles (London: Burns, Oates, and Washburn, 1928), 3, ii, p. 115. ” Aristotle, Politics, Richard McKeon (ed.) The Basic Works of Aristotle (New York: Random House, 1941), I, i. Plato, The Republic (New York: Basic Books, 1968),...

…ieve my argument could be illustrated with other religions, especially the Abrahamic religions of Judaism and Islam. As Aristotle’s influence created a kind of religious humanism in these religions in the past, the broader dialogue between science and religion may be able to do t...

…r’s misfortune. Though the emotion is universally understood, recognized in our written records at least as far back as Aristotle, the German language is one of the few to capture the feeling by tapping the brain’s promiscuity, combining the word for harm (schaden) with the word...

…e’d had an astonishing life until then, of course. He’d been taught by Socrates and, in turn, had sharpened the mind of Aristotle. He’d established his famous Academy in Athens. The puzzles of philosophy and politics that defined his city’s most turbulent era had been the work of...

…ization of Darwin’s, is not quite a truism because it carries the hypothesis that “potential” has an empirical meaning. Aristotle’s idea that potency precedes and explains act is called causality. Adam Smith’s friend and fellow Scotsman David Hume scarcely doubted causality, but...

Aristotle taught many of the famous leaders of his time

Aristotle examined groups of up to four statements

…the best learners in the universe. Much of the process of turning data into theories happens before we are five. Since Aristotle and Plato, there have been two basic ways of addressing the problem of how we know what we know, and they are still the main approaches in machine lea...

…the best learners in the universe. Much of the process of turning data into theories happens before we are five. Since Aristotle and Plato, there have been two basic ways of addressing the problem of how we know what we know, and they are still the main approaches in machine lea...

humanism that spread simultaneously into Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can be found when the lost texts of Aristotle were discovered, translated, and appropriated by scholars from these three religions who worked at the same tables in Islamic libraries in Spain and Sicily duri...

… the best learners in the universe. Much of the process of turning data into theories happens before we are five. Since Aristotle and Plato, there have been two basic ways of addressing the problem of how we know what we know, and they are still the main approaches in machine lea...

…adoxes about infinity, continuity, time, space, and motion that confounded his contemporaries and provoked no less than Aristotle to banish infinity from Greek philosophy and mathematics from then on. Fast-forward more than 2,500 years, and we're still wrestling with infinity and...

… not identical to outcome. There is ex ante and ex post fitness. But the ex ante kind is meaningless unless potency, in Aristotle’s terms, is expected to converge to act. Hamilton’s rule should not have escaped this critique for half a century. It clearly has merit, but needs so...

…r’s misfortune. Though the emotion is universally understood, recognized in our written records at least as far back as Aristotle, the German language is one of the few to capture the feeling by tapping the brain’s promiscuity, combining the word for harm (schaden) with the word...

…n. Though evildoers and evilreceivers overlap in their capacities to think and feel, there are differences, captured by Aristotle’s distinction between moral agents — those who have responsibility for others well being —and moral patients — those who deserve moral consideration a...