The quote first appeared in a 1926 book by U.S. historian and philosopher Will Durant titled "The Story of Philosophy." It is part of a passage in which Durant helps to elucidate a concept first ...

Aristotle was the most practical and business-oriented of all philosophers who asked ethical questions. You may stop at the idea that a person who's been dead for nearly 2,400 years has anything ...

In Book 2 of his Ethics (c. 330 BCE), Aristotle argues that moral virtues are developed by habit. Unlike sight and hearing, which are given to us at birth, virtue is not in our nature. But neither is ...

It’s easy to look down on self-help books, but believe it or not the genre is as old as Athens. The word “therapy” comes from therapeia, the ancient Greek word for “healing.” It treated both the body ...

In Physics, Book II, Ch. 3 Aristotle distinguishes four causes or, better, four explanatory factors that can be given in the answer to the question of why an entity changes in whatever ways it does ...

According to the latest research, Americans are increasingly friendless. In the 1990s, just 3 percent of Americans told pollsters they had no close friends. In 2021, 12 percent replied yes to this ...

On Thursday, archaeologist Kostas Sismanidis announced at the Aristotle 2400 Years World Conference at Aristotle University on the 2,400th anniversary of the birth of Aristotle that he'd found the ...