EDPS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intellectual Virtue, Nicomachean Ethics
15 Feb 2017
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Proxenus sent him to a school in athens plato"s school. Aristotle established the lyceum a school located near the favorite meeting. Tutor to prince alexander (heir to the macedonian throne) Productive years ended when alexander died: the mind of the academy spot of socrates, aristotle was charged with crimes similar to those against socrates. Aristotle refused to allow the human mind to impose its intuitive patterns on the natural world. Aristotle concluded that all things possess an essence of nature: inherent in this essence/nature is the potential to be actualized in accordance with that nature. Defining characteristics of human beings is their ability to ask general questions and seek answers to them philosophical thought: we are rational animals (questioning/thinking animals, capable of. An educator can enhance the human being"s natural desire to know: expose humans to the great minds struggling with the problems of mankind. When engaged in contemplation, humans no longer move from potentiality.
