What a fun fascinating #Smithsonian article on how and why #literature moves us.
From #Aristotle to now, 8 literary devices/tools explained from a #neuroscience perspective
#bookstodon #books #writing #CognitiveScience
I'd be interested in hearing what my #author friends (and everyone else) think of it :-)
#Aristotle named five interlinked Noble Sciences which together make up #Philosophy.
- #Metaphysics: the study of existence, the nature of the universe and all its contents
- #Logic: the ways we may know something, the set of permissible conclusions we may draw based on our perceptions, and some sensible rules of deduction and inference
- #Ethics: what we know about man and what we may deduce and infer (through Logic) about acceptable interactions between pairs of individuals
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A Captivating Journey Through Psychiatry, Philosophy, and Psychology
#Psychiatry #Philosophy #Psychology #MentalHealth #Hippocrates #Plato #Aristotle #Stoicism #Epicurus #Sociology #Durkheim #Marx #Weber #Ethics #PhilosophicalCounseling #HistoryOfThought #MindAndBody #HumanExperience #CriticalThinking #PhilosophyOfMind #MentalWellBeing
Exploring the Mind: An Enchanting Journey Through Psychiatry, Philosophy, and Psychology
#Psychiatry #Philosophy #Psychology #HistoryOfThought #Hippocrates #Plato #Aristotle #Stoicism #Epicureanism #Sociology #Ethics #PhilosophicalCounseling #Mind #HumanExperience #MentalHealth #IntellectualJourney #CulturalTapestry
I wrote on particulars, universals, and alternating between the two https://www.bryankam.com/p/from-will-to-representation-and-back?r=447n8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false #Aristotle #Schopenhauer #philosophy #logic @philosophy
Did #Heraclitus say that you can't step into the same river twice? The answer may shock you!
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
In a democracy the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them and the will of the majority is supreme. ~ #Aristotle #quotes #democracy. Hmm, how's this working out 2 millennia on? 
Did you know that the quote:
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
... was NOT uttered by #Aristotle?
This quote is a summary of Aristotle by Will Durant in his work 'The #History of #Philosophy' (1926).
What Aristotle actually said was:
"These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions; but no one, if he should leave them undone, would be even in the way to become a good man."
The quote is, therefore, about being virtuous, not diligent.
For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.
Online #Seminar: The Making and Unmaking of Selfhood
Which strategies do human beings develop to relate to themselves and to others? How do discourses and practices affect the way in which selfhood is conceptualized and transformed?
The seminar offers intercultural perspectives on self-cultivation at the encounter of philosophy and religious studies, including engagement with #Aristotle, #Epicureanism, #Neoplatonism, #Judaism, and #Foucault
Program and registration: https://www.rug.nl/filosofie/organization/news-and-events/events/2024/seminar-making-unmaking-selfhood
Some Dangerous Methods. I wrote about the shift in #Socrates method from his early "elenchus," to "collection and division" in #Plato, to categories in #Aristotle #philosophy https://www.bryankam.com/p/some-dangerous-methods?r=447n8
Cartoon, Peter Brookes. Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer (after Rembrandt)
In his work "The Republic" from around 380 BC, Plato compares Socrates' opponents to "weak Petteia players, who are eventually cornered and immobilized by the more intelligent ones." Aristotle said that "a citizen without a state can be compared to an isolated piece in a game of Petteia."
From the fact that they used such metaphors we can imagine that Plato and Aristotle were big fans of Petteia (a name that translates to "pebbles"). This was a strategy board game which was highly esteemed by the intellectuals of ancient Greece, because you didn't move your pieces with the help of dice (not leaving the game to the will of fate, mind you).
Petteia was quite similar to another Roman game called Latrunculi (or Ludus Latrunculorum), equally strategic. So up to this point, we understand the rules quite well, and you can read a bit about them here:
http://www.cyningstan.com/game/63/petteia 
As for its origin, Plato claimed that it came from Egypt. In fact, the game may be even older than the Trojan War (according to Kyppo Jorma, in his book "Board Games: Throughout History and Multidimensional Spaces") which, as far as we know, took place in about 1190 BC. We suspect this because we have pottery dating from 550-500 BC that depicts Achilles and Ajax playing Petteia (see image), and Homer mentions this game in his works.
Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
#Aristotle on the long game, the brittleness of power, how timing matters more than force, and how can how allies and networks can undermine oligarchs' control
Why Oligarchy Falls (And How to Speed It Up)
#Politics #Aristotle #Oligarchy #EndTheOligarchy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UlbJtgYEM1U
#Aristotle used the term #oligarchy to describe governance by a small, often wealthy or noble group, distinguishing it from #aristocracy, which he viewed as a more virtuous form of rule.
Now I remember why I preferred the opinions of #Plato.
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