Aristotle and Aquinas - eLatin eGreek eLearn2024-03-29T10:48:22Zhttps://eclassics.ning.com/forum/topics/aristotle-and-aquinas?feed=yes&xn_auth=noDear Karl, Thanks for the quo…tag:eclassics.ning.com,2010-02-08:727885:Comment:421322010-02-08T19:21:00.996ZDavid Derringtonhttps://eclassics.ning.com/profile/DavidDerrington
Dear Karl, Thanks for the quotation, which I will follow up in context later. I hadn't thought of the ethical dimension in my inquiry - my focus was more on epistemology. I've tended to keep clear of ethics, in the course of a long career!<br />
So if you, or anyone reading this can help me further with this inquiry, I'd be most grateful - David
Dear Karl, Thanks for the quotation, which I will follow up in context later. I hadn't thought of the ethical dimension in my inquiry - my focus was more on epistemology. I've tended to keep clear of ethics, in the course of a long career!<br />
So if you, or anyone reading this can help me further with this inquiry, I'd be most grateful - David Nichomachean Ethics X.7
Ther…tag:eclassics.ning.com,2010-02-08:727885:Comment:416452010-02-08T04:06:42.836ZKarl Schudthttps://eclassics.ning.com/profile/KarlSchudt
Nichomachean Ethics X.7<br />
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There may be something similar in Metaphysics, but I don't recall that text as well.<br />
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"But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything."…
Nichomachean Ethics X.7<br />
<br />
There may be something similar in Metaphysics, but I don't recall that text as well.<br />
<br />
"But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything."<br />
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