Laura Reagan – Page 30 – Baiting the Bear

Hayez, Francesco. Aristotele. 1811. Oil on canvas. Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice.

Aristotle, Etique a Eudeme

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Post published:March 9, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

Telle est donc la règle la meilleure, et tel est le critère le plus beau pour les biens extérieurs : qu’on soit empêché le moins possible par eux de servir et de contempler Dieu. This, therefore, is the end and the best limit regarding external things, so that the soul may be hindered as little as possible from the contemplation of God and His worship. Hic igitur finis sit et optimus terminus ad res externas respicienti, ut quam minime impediatur anima a contemplatione dei et cultu eius

Muscles of the neck and shoulders Leonardo da Vinci c. 1515

Aristotle Physical and Scientific Works

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 8, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

Nature is a source or cause of being moved and of being at rest in that to which it belongs primarily.

Della Robbia, Luca. Dialectic. ca. 1470–1490. Glazed terracotta. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Aristotle Logic the Organon

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Post published:March 7, 0004
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We suppose ourselves to possess unqualified scientific knowledge of a thing, as opposed to knowing it in the accidental way of the sophist, when we think that we know the cause on which the fact depends, as teh cause of that fact and of no other, and, further, that the fact could not be other than is is.

Grave Stele of Ilissos (or Grave Stele of a Young Hunter). c. 340 BCE. Pentelic marble, 168 x 110 cm. Inventory no. 869. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

Plato’s Laws

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Post published:March 6, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

Athenian Stranger. Tell me, Strangers, is a God or some man supposed to be the author of your laws?

Lambda Diagram of the World Soul from Plato's Timaeus. ca. 1175–1200. Ink and tempera on vellum. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Plato, Timaeus

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 5, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

We may now say that our discourse about the nature of the universe has an end. The world has received animals, mortal and immortal, and is fulfilled with them, and has become a visible animal containing the visible--the sensible God who is the image of the intellectual, the greatest, best, fairest, most perfect--the one only begotten heaven.

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Euripides Oretes

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 3, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

When one with honeyed words but evil min Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

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Euripides Phoenician Women

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:March 2, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

"Equality is what is natural for mankind. The more and the less are always at enmity with one another and begin the day of hatred. It is Equality that established for mankind measures and divisions of weights and defined number. The sightless eye of night and the light of the sun walk the year’s circle on equal terms, and neither of them is envious when it is defeated." (Lines 538–545)

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Plato, Symposium

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Post published:March 1, 0004
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My dear Socrates, that, then, is the nature of the Spirit called Love.

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Plato The Republic

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:February 28, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

The next step, apparently, is for us to try to discover, and point out, what the failings are in cities nowadays, which stop them being run in this way, and what is the minimum change which could help a city arrive at political arrangements of this kind. Ideally a single change. Failing that, two. And failing that, as few as possible in number and as small as possible in impact. 472b p.175

David, Jacques-Louis. The Death of Socrates. 1787. Oil on canvas. 129.5 x 196.2 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Plato, Phaedo

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:February 27, 0004
Post category:Library - Ancients

This way, he said. We surely agree that is anyone recollects anything, he must have known it before?