Aristotle

The "Wisdom" of Pearson's Pineapple Passage

Alan Singer | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Testing, Merryl Tisch, Philosophy, Plato, Pearson Education, Common Core, Wisdom, Aristotle, Standards, Pineapple Question, New York, Thomas Aquinas, Education News

If Pearson and Merryl Tisch were teachers being evaluated based on lesson of the pineapple, hare, and owl, they would both be rated "Unsatisfactory."

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Voice of the Hidden Waterfall

Tamsin Smith | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Choral Music, Michael Stillwater, Aristotle, Shining Night Film, Morten Lauridsen, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Human Nature, Culture News

When I hear Morten Lauridsen's choral composition, I sense a boundless beauty and tenderness within the nature of humankind. Here, there is no place for evil. Perhaps his music is even the wind that would bend us to be better.

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Interview With a Philosopher: A Conversation With Keith Wyma and Tobin Senefeld on Goldman Sachs

Tom Morris | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Aristotle, Goldman Sachs, New York Times Op Ed, Financial Services, Wall Street, Goldman Sachs Fraud, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Occupy Wall Street, Tom Morris, Ethics, Greg Smith, Tobin Senefeld, Keith Wyma, Corporate Culture, Business Ethics, Business News

If Aristotle ran Goldman Sachs, what sort of press do you think the company would be getting these days? How would employees, past and present, describe their culture?

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Infanticide: The New Abortion

Rabbi Adam Jacobs | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Abortion, Hegel, Morality, Infanticide, Charles Darwin, Aristotle, Religion and Politics, Judaism, Judaism and Abortion, Jewish Ethics, Religion News

The abortion question is unique in its ability to generate two utterly disparate conceptions of the same act. Is it a procedure or is it the wholesale megadeath of the other?

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Is There A Key To Happiness In The Midst Of Life's Storms?

David Wilson | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: How to Be Happy, God, Hope, Aristotle, Jesus, Christianity, Finding Happiness, The Inner Life, Faith, Happiness, Joy, Contentment, Religion News

Contentment, I believe, comes when we entrust ourselves, through faith into His loving care, knowing that where we are at this moment in our lives, is just where He wants us to be.

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Hubris and the Tree of Life

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Embryology, Aristotle, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Brain, Biology, Charles Darwin, Vertebrates, Psychology, Evolution, Bacteria, Mammals, Book of Genesis, Science News

We are part of a process, not its goal or final state. Just a branch point, a distal twig, on a continuously branching limb of the tree of life. Some may feel this perspective diminishes us. I don't.

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Humble Pie

Seth Shostak | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: The Sun, Planets, Copernicus, Copernican Revolution, Aristotle, Planet Earth, Aliens, The Planets, Solar System, Extraterrestrials, Science News

The next time you check your moves in the mirror and reflect on how special you are, consider that somewhere in this universe or in another parallel universe, your double might be doing the same.

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Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing

Barry Schwartz | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Philosophy, Practical Wisdom, Aristotle, Books News

We Americans are growing increasingly disenchanted with the institutions on which we depend. We can't trust them. They disappoint us. They fail to give us what we need. This is true of schools that are not serving our kids as well as we think they should.

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Barbeque Wisdom: My Pulled Pork Epiphany at Southern Soul

Tom Morris | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Aristotle, Guy Fieri, Diners Drive-Ins and Dives, Socrates, Food Network, The King and Prince Hotel, Diners, Southern Soul, The Food Network, Saint Simons Island, Southern Soul Barbeque Restaurant, Feuerbach, Food News

I started off with a huge plate of pulled pork and beef brisket, accompanied by fried okra, potato salad, sweet collard greens, Brunswick Stew, and thick toast, all washed down with two or three bottles of Bud Light on tap. You have to cut your calories somewhere.

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Vetoing Democracy: In Athens or Washington, Elites Still Call the Shots

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: George Papandreou, Super Committee, South Korea, Social Security, Aristotle, Plato, Free Trade, g20, Greece, Politics News

Plato's aversion to democracy is shared by a lot of powerful people these days. But politicians, especially those whose party derives its name from the democratic principle, would be better off remembering another Greek philosopher: Aristotle.

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Can 'I Don't Know' Break The Abortion Stalemate?

John Backman | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Aristotle, Abortion, Human, St. Augustine, Roe, Ultrasound, Fetus, Apostles' Creed, Roe v. Wade, 1973, Pro-Life, Blackmun, Pro-Choice, Christianity, Religion News

"Becoming human" is not a scientific question but a spiritual or philosophical one. And who can answer any such question definitively?

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I Will Stand Idly By

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Success, Life Goals, Idleness, Aristotle, Retirement, Peace, healthpost50, Fifty News

Perhaps the true sign of success is the ability to free oneself from work to engage in the active process of what Aristotle called idleness, the effortfully investigation of life to 'know oneself.'

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The Absurdity of Obama's Quotations

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Aristotle, Gandhi, Twain, Socrates, Obama Speeches, Obama Quotes, Confucious, Politics News

As I was perusing my favorite online quotations page recently, I was shocked to discover our new president, a real 'newbie' in terms of governing much less generating legacy quotes that should be remembered through the ages, has 21 quotes listed for himself.

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Sketches of Spain

Tamsin Smith | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Bullfighting, Federico Garcia-Lorca, Aristotle, William Butler Yeats, Duede, Flamenco, Music, Love, Nick Cave, Death, Happiness, Arts News

What makes a good life? Artistotle put in a plug for happiness, though his is a much more disciplined and nuanced use of the phrase. "Happy" -- ubiq...

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Interview With a Philosopher: Lou Marinoff -- Part One

Tom Morris | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Lou Marinoff, Plato, Aristotle, Plato Not Prozac, Philosophy Economy, Socrates, Culture News

As Plato and Aristotle knew, many of the world's problems are caused or fueled by doxa, half-baked opinions and false beliefs that, for one reason or another, have remained unexamined.

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The Christian Revolution

Matt J. Rossano | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Aristotle, Pliny the Younger, Human Value, Secularism, Image of God, Ethics, Roman Empire, Paganism, Christianity, David Bentley Hart, Christian Ethics, Christian History, Religion News

The ease with which the ancient world accepted violence and suffering was a natural outgrowth of the pagan understanding of the human person. But Christianity pronounced a message as radical as it was attractive.

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What God Isn't: A Shavuot Reflection

Rabbi Adam Jacobs | Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: Monotheism, Guide for the Perplexed, Abraham, Aristotle, Maimonides, Brian Greene, Judaism, What Is Infinity, What Is God, Jewish Concept of God, Shavuot 2011, Religion News

The Torah teaches that the earliest civilizations knew God's unified nature quite well but that there was an unfortunate descent of comprehension over the generations.

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The Theological Dilemma Of Medieval Neuroscience

Matt J. Rossano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aristotle, Augustine, Lazarus, Neuroscience, Immortal Soul, Inner Senses, Brain Function, Thomas Aquinas, Galen, Cognitive Psychology in the Middle Ages, Christianity and Science, The Beginnings of Western Science, Christian Science, Medieval Christianity, Christianity, Medieval Neuroscience, Religion News

The 12th and 13th centuries witnessed a flourishing of natural philosophy in Christian Europe. This Medieval natural philosophy included the biological basis of the human mind.

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The Egypt Experience -- A Message

Richard Geldard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Revolution, Christianity, Library of Alexandria, Ismail Serageldin, Aristotle, World News

In the aftermath of the revolution in Egypt, the head librarian of the Library of Alexandria wrote a letter to the youth of his country. The significance of this communication is only heightened by its source.

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The Untaming

Tamsin Smith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Yu Jian, Memory, Music, Henry David Thoreau, Aristotle, Poetry, Healthy Living News

Less categorizing, parsing, and debating will do me good. Living in the possible, not because of what has been or what should be, but because it's simply a place where incredible things can happen with and through a permeable mind.

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Axing Art$ And Humanitie$

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, NYC Arts, Halldor-Laxness, Plato, Philosophy, Sigur Ros, Business, China, Iceland, Bjork, Snorri Sturluson, Nobel Prize, Singapore, Humanities, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Socrates, Technology, Aeschylus, Nordic, Arts Education, Euripides, Arts News

"My most heartfelt wish is to be allowed to read Nordic studies at the university, because it is my unwavering belief that doing so will cultivate my ...

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Fundrace: Powering Campaign Transparency

John Aristotle Phillips | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporate Political Contributions, Political Contributions, Campaign Contributions, Aristotle, 2010 Political Contributions, Huffington Post Fundrace, Celebrity Political Contributions, Fundrace, Politics News

While celebrities are known to contribute big bucks in political support, what about your neighbors or your boss? Starting today, Huffington Post visitors have access to this information in just a few clicks.

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"The Play's the Thing": Getting Butts in the Seats

Ashley Wren Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Donkey Show, Death and the Powers, Theater, Under Construction, Signature Theatre Company, Angels in America, See Rock City, Charles L. Mee, Transport Group, Diane Paulus, Medea, SITI Company, Theatre, Hair, Tom Stoppard, The Boys in the Band, John Gielgud, Sleep No More, Aristotle, Macbeth, American Repertory Theatre, David Staller, Anne Bogart, Shaw New York, The Extra Man, Gingold Theatrical Group, Project Shaw, Marian Seldes, Tony Kushner, Jack Cummings III, The Coast of Utopia, Tadashi Suzuki, Punchdrunk, Arts News

"I don't think revolution ever happens on big Broadway stages. So our responsibility is to create extraordinary events in small rooms that infect the rest of the culture," Anne Bogart insists.

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Fox Cancels 24? They Don't Know Jack

Tom Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virtue, Philosophy, Chloe Obrien, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Secret Service, Fbi, Hero, Television, Counterterrorism, Aristotle, Jack Bauer, Keifer Sutherland, Fox Network, Dvd, Heroism, Fox, 24, Valor, Entertainment News

It's just been announced that Fox will stop the clock on 24 from ticking any more, and not even Jack Bauer can prevent this tragedy. But something tells me Jack is not the type to retire quietly. He'll be back. That's who he is.

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What is Philosophy? It's Not About Beards and Togas

Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Thought, Self Knowledge, Philosophy, Time, The Stone, Epicurus, The New York Times, Fulfillment, Togas, Thinking, Happiness, Joy, Friendship, The Inner Life, Work, Aristotle, Pascal, Plato, Philosophers, Family, Healthy Living News

This week, The New York Times launched a new online commentary called "The Stone," where academic philosophers, professors at our colleges and univers...

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