scholarly journals On the capability of Aristotle’s ethics to become the first philosophy

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 648-656
Author(s):  
Alexander Sanzhenakov
Keyword(s):  
First Principles ◽  
Intellectual Virtues ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Difficult Question ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Rational Part ◽  
Aristotle's Ethics ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First Philosophy

The article is devoted to the analysis of the problem of the relationship of ethics and metaphysics. The majority of the researchers believe that metaphysics precedes and determines ethics. It means that key concepts of ethics are based on the concepts of metaphysics. In Aristotle’s philosophy such metaphysical concepts are the “essence”, “form” and “activity” or “actuality”. The difficult question is whether ethics can be the first philosophy. The author identifies four criteria that Aristotle’s ethics must meet in order to be the first philosophy. Ethics must (1) deal with the first principles and causes, (2) give the universal knowledge, (3) deal with the most valuable subject, (4) be a commander discipline. It is obvious that the part of ethics that concerns moral virtues does not meet these criteria. However, the first philosophy is closer to that part of ethics, which concerns the intellectual virtues, and especially it concerns sophia – the highest virtues of the rational part of the soul. In this case, we can speak about merging of ethical and metaphysical discourses.

The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Boyd ◽  
Kevin Timpe
Keyword(s):  
Moral Life ◽  
Rule Following ◽  
Intellectual Virtues ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Theological Virtues ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction explores both the nature of virtue in general and specific kinds of virtues. These include the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues, as well as the capital vices. From the philosophy of Aristotle and Confucius, to the paintings of Raphael, Botticelli, and many more, fascination with the virtues has endured and evolved to fit a wide range of cultural, religious, and philosophical contexts through the centuries. This VSI examines the role of the virtues in the moral life, their cultivation, and how they offer ways of thinking and acting that are alternatives to mere rule-following. It also considers the relationship of the virtues to one’s own emotions, desires, and rational capacities.

Information Systems for the Management of the Organizations

2018 ◽  
pp. 96-116
Author(s):  
José Rascão
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Role Of Information

This chapter investigates the key concepts of information systems, as well as the role of information in the information management activities, in terms of supporting decision making by different organizations' managers in the literature of information sciences and business sciences. The information has become, in the global economy, a source of value for organizations, assuming a key role in contributing to the development of the performance of the same. The relationship of information management with business management helps the process of decision making.

scholarly journals So Near, So Far: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 922
Author(s):  
Joëlle Hansel
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
French Philosophy ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

The purpose of my article is to shed light on the relationship of proximity and distance that linked two major figures of 20th-century French philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch. This article presents a comparative study of their respective views on Metaphysics and Ethics. It also deals with their contribution to the reflection on the fact of “Being Jewish”, the theme that was at the center of the preoccupations of these two artisans of the renewal of Jewish thought in France after the Shoah. I conduct a comparative analysis between the key concepts of their philosophy: Levinas’ “There is” and “Otherness” and Jankélévitch’s “I-know-not-what” and “Ipseity”. I point out the difference between Levinas’ ethics of Otherness and Jankélévitch’s morality of paradox. In the section on “Being Jewish”, I highlight the crucial distinction they both made between racism and anti-Semitism and the very different meaning they gave to it.

scholarly journals How to Think of Religious Commitment as a Ground for Moral Commitment: A Thomistic Perspective on the Moral Philosophies of John Cottingham and Raimond Gaita

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Wynn
Keyword(s):  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Moral Commitment ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Moral Philosophies ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

John Cottingham has argued that certain traits that are widely considered ideals of character will only count as virtues granted the truth of theism. Writing from an atheistic or perhaps agnostic perspective, Raimond Gaita has proposed that the language of religion provides a useful aid for the moral imagination. This chapter aims to show how Thomas Aquinas’s category of infused moral virtue can be used to extend and integrate the work of these influential authors, so as to produce a further, broadly based account of the relationship of religious and moral commitment. Since Cottingham and Gaita set out their respective positions relatively briefly, it begins by presenting each approach in its strongest form, and then considers how these approaches may be extended by appeal to Thomas Aquinas’s account of the goods that are the object of the infused moral virtues.

scholarly journals The Power of a Doodling Brain: Concept Maps as Pathways to Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milagros I. Rivera Cora ◽  
Soledad Gonzales ◽  
Matilde Sarmiento ◽  
Alejandra Esparza Young ◽  
Edith Esparza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Concept Maps ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Medical Concepts ◽  
The Relationship

Children begin to emulate writing and what they see around them at a very early age (Byington & Kim, 2017). The simple scribbles they begin to produce are representations of complex cognitive processes occurring. The constant cognitive scaffolding which medical students experience can be compared to the cognitive process children participate in when they doodle, this could be aiding them to visualize and to efficiently create concept maps as adults to learn key concepts and to quickly make connections. The ability to visualize and to understand the relationship of critically important medical concepts remains an invaluable skill which can be reflected through diagramming, concept mapping and doodling.

Philosophical Fundamentalism Today

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregg Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First Philosophy

This statement returns to Heidegger’s earliest seminar on the relationship of faith and philosophy in order to contrast the contemporary philosophy in which not only can Christian philosophy be possible, but there is also a dominant return to first philosophy.

Aristotle's Ethics

Classics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thornton Lockwood
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Treasure Trove ◽  
Human Good ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
Aristotle's Ethics ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (EN) is the first part of what Aristotle calls “a philosophy of human things” (EN X.9.1181b15), one which finds its completion in Aristotle’s Politics (see the separate Oxford Bibliographies article Aristotle’s Politics). (Throughout this article, references to Ethics or EN are to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics; for the relationship of the Nicomachean Ethics to Aristotle’s other ethical writings, including the Eudemian Ethics (EE), see Relationship between the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics.) The work inaugurates the study of “ethics” as an independent discipline, albeit a discpline which is broader than modern notions of morality, which is primarily practical rather than theoretical, and which is the companion study to politics. The Ethics sets as its goal the understanding of the human good, or eudaimonia, which Aristotle describes as “an activity of the soul in accord with virtue” (I.7.1098a16–17). Its analyses range over the nature of the human soul, the notion of moral responsibility, the ethical and intellectual qualities—called virtues—that are perfections of the nonrational and rational parts of the soul, ways in which reason and desire are unified and in conflict, the nature of pleasure, and the various kinds of friendship that contribute to the human good. Although the work includes a treasure trove of passages that paint a picture of 4th-century Greek social and linguistic practices, the work’s most lasting significance has been its articulation of a philosophical vocabulary and framework to address many of the central questions concerning human well-being.

Structure–thermodynamics relationship of schoepite from first-principles

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (46) ◽  
pp. 25569-25576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe F. Weck ◽  
Carlos F. Jové-Colón ◽  
Eunja Kim
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Thermodynamic Properties ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Density Functional Perturbation Theory ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between the structure and thermodynamic properties of schoepite, an important uranyl phase with formula [(UO2)8O2(OH)12]·12H2O formed upon corrosion of UO2, has been investigated with density functional perturbation theory.

scholarly journals The Power of a Doodling Brain: Concept Maps as Pathways to Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milagros I. Rivera Cora ◽  
◽  
Soledad Gonzales ◽  
Matilde Sarmiento ◽  
Alejandra Esparza Young ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Concept Maps ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Medical Concepts ◽  
The Relationship

Children begin to emulate writing and what they see around them at a very early age (Byington & Kim, 2017). The simple scribbles they begin to produce are representations of complex cognitive processes occurring. The constant cognitive scaffolding which medical students experience can be compared to the cognitive process children participate in when they doodle, this could be aiding them to visualize and to efficiently create concept maps as adults to learn key concepts and to quickly make connections. The ability to visualize and to understand the relationship of critically important medical concepts remains an invaluable skill which can be reflected through diagramming, concept mapping and doodling.

scholarly journals Exploring Care Through Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van: Extending Meanings, Encountering Otherness

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (7) ◽  
pp. 1254-1260
Author(s):  
Maricel Oró-Piqueras ◽  
Núria Casado-Gual
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Care Theory ◽  
Aging Studies ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Care Relationships ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background and Objectives This article explores care relationships as they are represented within “The Lady in the Van,” a sequence of interconnected texts by English writer Alan Bennett. Research and Methods By mainly taking the memoirs and film of the same title as primary sources, and in the light of key concepts related to care theory and aging studies, the article shows the extent to which Bennett goes beyond the accustomed portrayal of domestic relationships of care by placing himself as the protagonist of a narrative—and a relationship—in which caring for and about a complete stranger entails coming to terms with both social and personal issues. Discussion The article examines the ways in which the relationship of care portrayed by Bennett entails exploring forms of Otherness that both caring and aging unveil, which are related to age, gender, and sexuality, and that in Bennett’s narrative end up favoring a dialogue of which the author himself is the main beneficiary.

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