One of my recent posts to another discussion board–my apologies for the lack of context, but it is hopefully interesting enough despite it’s contextual isolation: “I think your remarks and observations are very interesting, and especially for me, the questions about truth. Your distinction between truth and persuasion is well-taken; judges [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Aristotle’
Nuance, Truth, and Rejecting Relativism
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Aristotle, Philosophy, truth on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aristotle, techne, and Transcendence
Posted in Christianity, History, Philosophy, tagged Aristotle, Greek philosophy on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In a lecture in one of my classes on Monday, Professor Charles Young (Philosophy, Claremont Graduate University) paraphrased Plato’s opinion (in response to a question) that it takes theory to have art or systematic approach to a craft (techne), which is what we might call practice. Another student raised the question of “how do we [...]
