Life’s Purpose March 4th 2025 I believe that people are suffering today, like in any other era, due to entirely preventable reasons. And I believe that the vast majority of human beings have the power within themselves to take action and improve their life. I do not believe that everything Read more…
To Know the Reason Why Nov – Dec 2025 We human beings often choose to act simply because we cannot immediately think of a reason not to. Yet thoughtlessness is not clarity, and the absence of a ‘No’ is not the presence of ethical permissibility. Acting without a reason is Read more…
As always, I write for myself, but if this helps anyone, that would of course make me smile. The trigger of these thoughts is a conversation with a professor I admire. She asked me why I became so attracted to Aristotle as a freshman at Princeton. to strive for a Read more…
I haven’t posted anything in a while, but I’ve of course not stopped reading or working on understanding Aristotle. Here is an essay I worked on on-and-off for the last few weeks 🙂 Don’t mind me very clumsily trying to make some sense of the De Anima and De Motu Animalium. Bibliography: Read more…
Notes & passages that interest me from Aristotle’s works on biology 🙂 Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Summary of David Charles’ lovely paper “Aristotle’s Pscyhological Theory”. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.
Summary & notes of A.D. Smith’s paper “Character and Intellect in Aristotle’s Ethics” in Phronesis, Vol. 41. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.
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My personal translation of Aristotle’s Post.An II.19. Photo of my beloved copy 🙂