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Chargement... Aristotle: His Life and Schoolpar Carlo Natali
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This definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he founded. First published in Italian, and now translated, updated, and expanded for English readers, this concise chronological narrative is the most authoritative account of Aristotle's life and his Lyceum available in any language. Gathering, distilling, and analyzing all the evidence and previous scholarship, Carlo Natali, one of the world's leading Aristotle scholars, provides a masterful synthesis that is accessible to students yet filled with evidence and original interpretations that specialists will find informative and provocative. Cutting through the controversy and confusion that have surrounded Aristotle's biography, Natali tells the story of Aristotle's eventful life and sheds new light on his role in the foundation of the Lyceum. Natali offers the most detailed and persuasive argument yet for the view that the school, an important institution of higher learning and scientific research, was designed to foster a new intellectual way of life among Aristotle's followers, helping them fulfill an aristocratic ideal of the best way to use the leisure they enjoyed. Drawing a wealth of connections between Aristotle's life and thinking, Natali demonstrates how the two are mutually illuminating. For this edition, ancient texts have been freshly translated on the basis of the most recent critical editions; indexes have been added, including a comprehensive index of sources and an index to previous scholarship; and scholarship that has appeared since the book's original publication has been incorporated. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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If we stop pursuing happiness, as a 'thing' in itself. And instead accept, and understand our true, natural, evolving selves. Whilst living with a healthy dose of general ethics, and compassion alongside. Then very often happiness is a sort of by product - it almost sneaks in like an uninvited, but not wholly unwelcome guest at the party.
Like the old Zen quote "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. "Happiness" as an aim is fraught with disappointment. People need to stop competing with one another and stop striving and buying things they don't need. Just try to be helpful and nice to others who need help and we need to tell some to fuck off a bit more often also.
I was already doing the being useful, and reasonably ethical, side of things. What I'd neglected was building the self worth, and confidence to be able to tell the 'idiots' to 'sod off’ when it was needed. Now I know I'm pretty much OK, with all the usual selection of 'flaws' and downsides that beset, the average humanoid. But I still think I'm OK, and the idiots will just have to live with that :-) ( )