Caesar III (Impressions Software, 1998)
“Have to make the people go where they must,” I keep telling myself. Playing Caesar 3, which some call “SimRome.” Efficient city-b...
Category: aristotle
Notes on a Lecture of Susan D. Collins – “E Pluribus Unum: Citizens, Friends, and Free Thinkers in the Ancient City”
These are my notes; feedback appreciated, I did what I could to be clear. You can watch the original lecture here. Susan Collins teaches at the University of Ho...
Notes on a talk of Ronna Burger concerning Aristotle’s Ethics
Privileged to witness Ronna Burger lecture on her book Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics. Below are my notes, rewritten into a...
Aristotle’s Criticism of Thales: Metaphysics 983b17 – 984a5
Of Thales we know virtually nothing. However, Aristotle’s comment on his thought in-and-of itself is worthwhile: For there must be some nature, either one...
Ancients and Moderns: On Aristotle’s Politics I.1 (1252a 1-25)
The Aristotle quoted below is from the Carnes Lord translation of the Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1985). 1. Aristotle opens and immediately challenge...