Browsing by Subject "Aristotle"
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Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on Divine and Human Happiness
(2018-12-13)This thesis aims to compare Aristotle’s and Thomas Aquinas’s doctrines of divine and human happiness. I argue that the doctrine of participation creates a significant difference between the two theories. I proceed by first ... -
Aristotle on Philia
(2014-08-22)Aristotle devotes two books of the Nicomachean Ethics—one fifth of the whole work—to the topic of philia, but the relation between these treatments and the rest of the work is unclear. My thesis shows the importance of ... -
Aristotle's Concept of Analogy and its Function in the Metaphysics
(2016-08-31)This thesis aims to settle an old dispute concerning Aristotle’s concept of analogy and its function in the Metaphysics. The question is whether Aristotle’s theory of pros hen legomena, things predicated in reference to ... -
Aristotle's Ethics of Goodness: A Study of the Self in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics
(2019-04-03)Aristotle's assumptions about the structure of the self and its relationship to society differ greatly from those which are prevalent in modern European philosophical discourse. This can be an obstacle to understanding ... -
Jonson's and Shakespeare's "Comedy of Affliction"
(2011-09-06)This dissertation explores the relevance of recent studies of Aristotle’s comic theory to the central dramatists of early modern England, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Applications of the Poetics to Renaissance English ... -
The Metaphysical Origin of the Two-Fold Conception of Human Selfhood in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
(2014-08-25)This thesis aims to unearth the root of the apparent contradiction in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics between the endorsement of the life devoted to, on the one hand, the practical good, and, on the other hand, the theoretical ... -
A note on the Aristotelian origin of Popper's demarcation criterion together with its application to Atlantic Canada's fisheries
(2012-03-26)It has not always been realised that Karl Popper's demarcation criterion, the criterion he uses to distinguish an empirical science from its 'metaphysical' complement involves an interpretation of the classical theory of ... -
Philosophical Platonism: Plato and the Problems of Philosophy
(2015)In this thesis, I seek to provide an account of the function of philosophical practice as it arose in Classical Greece with the work of Plato. In Chapter 1, I argue for the plausibility of engaging in metaphilosophical ... -
The Root of All Dimensions
(2014-08-21)This thesis aims to resolve the disjunction of ontology and epistemology in Platonist mathematical philosophy. This disharmony results from the assumption of the non-spatiotemporal existence of abstract mathematical entities, ... -
Some notes on the Aristotelian origin of the distinction between a falsificationist's and verificationist's view of science: together with corrections to my earlier account
(2012-10-31)It has not always been realised that Karl Popper's analytic distinction between the logically stronger falsificationist's view of science and the logically weaker verificationist's and inductivist's view of science is a ... -
Teleology and Awareness in Aristotle's Ethical Thought
(2012-08-23)In a famous argument at the beginning of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that the function and good of the human being is the "actuality of the soul in accordance with virtue". Presenting a view critical of the ... -
THE THEORY OF MATHEMATICAL SUBTRACTION IN ARISTOTLE
(2019-08-29)The problem with most modern accounts of Aristotle’s so-called ‘theory of mathematical abstraction’ or aphairesis (ἀφαίρεσις) is that it is interpreted primarily through the scope of the epistemological process of an ... -
The Unity of Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics ?
(2011-12-16)This thesis investigates whether Aristotle is actually presenting substance as the subject of a single science in Metaphysics ?. It proposes that he is, and that the common principles of all substances, which are required ... -
᾿Εγὼ τὸ Αλφα καὶ τὸ Ωμεγα, ἠ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος: Aristotelian Teleology and Christian Eschatology in Origen’s De Principiis (An Eriugenian Reading of Origen)
(2016-09-01)The central logic of Origen’s De Principiis rests upon the axiom that “the end must be like the beginning.” Despite the importance of this principle, Origen never elaborates upon it, but simply asserts it as the incontrovertible ... -
ῥοπὴ βίου μοι: THE PASSIVE ROUTE TO APOTHEOSIS IN SOPHOCLES' OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
(2016-08-26)This thesis seeks to demonstrate the necessary role of passivity in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus as a catalyst of Oedipus’ restoration to community, of his ethical innocence and of the renewed personal agency that culminates ...