... efficient and formal causation and explanation. I will discuss a few interesting consequences. symmetry formal cause formal explanation efficient cause Plato Aristotle The answer to ‘Can the dimples on a golf ball be evenly spaced?’ is no, they cannot, which might come as a surprise. I will explain why...

... and will not convert vicious adults, but they are suitable for reaching most students and can appeal to their emotions and practical wisdom. While Jonas and Nakazawa argue that Plato and Aristotle only agree on the centrality of habituation, imitation, and role-modelling in their accounts of moral education, I...

... with Plato as a moral educator. The number of times we have heard students or professors claim that their moral lives had been changed in the past by reading a dialogue by Plato is remarkable. It was the same for us. Both of us had an encounter with Plato that made us want to be better people. Our book...

... practice. Such an education would be defined not by its content—that is, explicit instruction about moral rules or particular virtues—but rather by the form of its constituent activities. Drawing on the works of both Plato and Foucault, the article addresses questions about the epistemic complexity...

... Nakazawa have argued that Plato outlines a theory of virtue education. Alkis Kotsonis has similarly argued that Plato articulated a theory of intellectual character education. I think that Jonas, Nakazawa, and Kotsonis have opened a productive line of enquiry on this matter, and I expand on their work...

... this précis, Mintz’s article outlines a programme of ‘Platonic Character Education’ that expands upon that of Jonas and Nakawaza, showing that Plato’s philosophy of virtue education offers conceptual and educational guidance for cultivating not only moral virtues, but also civic and performance virtues...

... of Aristotelian virtue ethics, which forms the backbone for programmes that many schools are now adopting. Mark Jonas and Yoshiaki Nakazawa, however, argue that schools should revisit Plato’s pedagogical methods, as well. If educators want to develop virtue in students, they need to understand the mechanism...

... to be by itself” (65d, trans. Grube in Plato, 1997 ). Before we begin, we need to say a little about our methodology. Our discussion of the ancients will focus on assimilationism in Plato, Aristotle, and Neoplatonism. ³ With respect to our methodology, we need to make two important points. First...

... are present in the Symposium, and which serve as a propaedeutic to intimacy, love and teaching. Dialogue is perhaps the easiest to describe. For the most part, Plato wrote in dialogue form because he understood that the truth emerges in the space between people. Socrates does not have the truth...

.... Abstract Proteins usually associate with other molecules physically to execute their functions. Identifying these interactions is important for the functional analysis of proteins. Previously, we reported the parallel analysis of translated ORFs (PLATO) to couple ribosome display of full-length ORFs...

.... Consequently, jurisprudential reflection upon the nature of law is a necessary and fundamental feature of communities that aspire to governance by law. law practice value association philosophy Plato the state friendship Perhaps human groups may sometimes be governed by the simplest facts of force...

... may be seen as a paradigm for the spiritual and moral reform he desired within the Church as a whole. Bernardino Cirillo Pope Julius II Michelangelo Counter Reformation polyphony Plato humanism text-setting When investigating early modern sacred music, especially in connection...

... for transhumanism is hence inapposite. As we will see, Tantalus is a more fitting—though less desirable—mythological figure for transhumanists to single out. Among philosophers, Plato and Aristotle are most often mentioned in the transhumanist literature with similar inattention to detail. According to Moravec...

... tradition was replaced by a more comprehensive natural law tradition of ethics. Ruskin economics evangelicalism atonement natural law morality ethics Carlyle Plato Hooker Guild of St George John Ruskin (1819–1900) turned from artistic and architectural studies towards political economy...

..., in effect, develops J.L. Austin’s remark that with ‘real’, the negative ‘wears the trousers’. The development is then exploited for a proposed elucidation of Plato’s discussion of the fields of knowledge and belief in his Republic. It is proposed that Plato was striving for something whose futility...

... parties to the relation are equally equipped to participate—though not necessarily for the same reasons in equal proportions; and widespread transparency regarding conditions 1–3. 11 Given his perennial association in many quarters with authoritarian sociopolitical frameworks, Plato might seem like...

... of extramission based on Plato's descriptions of ocular rays made of “fire as had the property not of burning, but of providing a gentle light” ( Plato 1929 , 45b). Explicitly describing her eyes with the imagery of the eyebeam, Shakespeare describes Venus' “fiery eyes [that] blaze forth” (219), becoming...

...Joel Warren Lidz ancient medicine ethics health Plato © 1995 by The Society for Health and Human Values 1995 Abstract This article (1) argues that ancient Greek medicine had a significant effect on the way in which Plato conceived of ethics, and (2) explores some ways in which Plato integrated...

...This chapter analyzes the development of Plato's thought on pleasure in the Republic. It argues that the Republic contains an ingenious attempt to salvage the table-turning elements in the Protagoras view while giving grounds for not giving value...

... as relatively pleasant if they both contain nothing but unmixed pleasures. Consequently, if we set ourselves the task of setting out the pleasantest describable life, we shall not any longer be sure, if we succeed, of coming up with the best. For there are many ‘pleasantest describable lives’. 7.7.2. So Plato’s...