The first exhaustive study of Aristotle's concept of chance.

_The first exhaustive study of Aristotle's concept of chance._.

“Physical and Metaphysical Foundations of Aristotelian Ethics”. Leading scholars have regarded Aristotle’s ethics as a kind of dialectical reasoning based on popular opinions and without any sound philosophical foundation. In this paper I shall attempt to show, against them, that Aristotle’s ethics has a physical and a metaphysical foundation as well. Aristotle conceives of ethics metaphysically, given the centrality of his concept of God in his ethical thought. Furthermore, the conception of life behind it comes from his natural philosophy, specifically (...) from his concept of soul. (shrink)

Das Verhältnis von Ethik und Metaphysik ist seit langem ein wichtiger Gegenstand der Aristotelesinterpretation. Die vorliegende Studie greift diese Frage auf. Es soll anhand gründlicher Erklärungen einschlägiger Texte dargetan werden, wie nach Aristoteles die höchste Tätigkeit und das Glück des Menschen der Tätigkeit Gottes nachgebildet sind. Dabei werden Schlüsselbegriffe wie XXXXXX, XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX und XXXXXXXX eingehend untersucht.

Taking into account Jones’s adoption of principles of modernist poetics—juxtaposition, allusion, and parataxis, all geared “to create newness”—this essay examines the theological ramifications for the poet’s breaking down, in his semi-autobiographical World War I poem, of modernist order and control. Jones unravels modernist aesthetics, conveying their inadequacy to the brutal realities of war. A space for religious belief appears through this process, but one not of heightened understanding; instead it is a via negativa, an unknowing, consonant with ideas from medieval (...) mysticism but applied to the modern Waste Land. This pattern is borne out in Jones’s handling of the medieval trope of “misadventure,” his references to Eliot, his play on the word “line,” and his development of the concept of “parenthesis.”. (shrink)

Is helping those whose subsistence needs are not meet a matter of charity or an obligation? What role should ordinary citizens of developed nations play? In a globalized world, the causes, connections, and responsibilities become complicated. Agriculture subsidies that keep food prices low for many in relatively rich countries may, for example, negatively impact poor farmers in developing countries. Students in Ethics/Philosophy 352 report on their project examining whether, and to what extent, a true obligation to aid exists.