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Jan 1, 2002 · Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a lucid and useful translation of one of Aristotle's major works for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as well as for the general reader interested in the major works of western civilization.
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Edited by Joe Sachs & Plato. This is an English translation of four of Plato’s dialogue (Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus) that explores the topic of sophistry and philosophy, a key concept at the source of Western thought. Includes notes and an introductory essay.
Joe Sachs What is a human being? What are we made of, and what do we amount to? This is the philosophic question that touches us most closely, and Thomas Aquinas is not hesitant about answering it: “Man differs from irrational animals in this, that he is master of his actions. Wherefore those
Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a lucid and useful translation of one of Aristotle's major works for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as well...
Sep 1, 2001 · Aristotle, Joe Sachs (Translator) Presents a view of the psyche that avoids the simplifications both of the materialists and those who believe in the soul as something quite distinct from body. This title includes Aristotle's idiosyncratic and influential account of light and colors.
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In philosophy, potentiality and actuality [1] are a pair of closely connected principles which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, and De Anima. [2] The concept of potentiality, in this context, generally refers to any "possibility" that a thing can be said to have.
Joe Sachs taught for thirty years at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has translated Aristotle's Physics , Metaphysics , On the Soul , and, for the Focus Philosophical Library, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics , Plato's Theaetetus , Republic , and Gorgias , a collection of Plato's dialogues entitled Socrates and the ...
