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1. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” 2. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” 3. “Excellence is never an accident.
The philosopher Aristotle held that there were three basic activities of humans: theoria (thinking), poiesis (making), and praxis (doing). Corresponding to these activities were three types of knowledge: theoretical , the end goal being truth; poietical, the end goal being production; and practical, the end goal being action. [ 1 ]
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle [34] Τὶ δύσκολον; Τὸ ἑαυτὸν γνῶναι. [35] Tì dúskolon? Tò heautòn gnônai. "What is hard? To know thyself." — attributed (among other sages) to Thales, according to Pausanias [36] Oedipus and the sphinx, on an Attic red-figure kylix
The School of Aristotle, by Gustav Adolph Spangenberg The German-American classicist Werner Jaeger used the concept of paideia to trace the development of Greek thought and education from Homer to Demosthenes in Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture , [ 4 ] Aristotelian philosopher Mortimer Adler gives a paideia proposal in his criticism of ...
The Peripatetic school (Ancient Greek: Περίπατος lit. ' walkway ') was a philosophical school founded in 335 BC by Aristotle in the Lyceum in ancient Athens.It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific inquiries.
Aristotle considered ethics to be a practical rather than theoretical study, i.e., one aimed at becoming good and doing good rather than knowing for its own sake. He wrote several treatises on ethics, most notably including the Nicomachean Ethics. [139] Aristotle taught that virtue has to do with the proper function (ergon) of a thing. An eye ...
The academy is regarded as the first institution of higher education in the west, where subjects as diverse as biology, geography, astronomy, mathematics, history, and many more were taught and investigated. [1] [2] Aristotle studied there for twenty years (367–347 BC) before founding his own school, the Lyceum.
Aristotle also writes that although sophia is higher and more serious than phronesis, the pursuit of wisdom and happiness requires both, as phronesis facilitates sophia. [4]: VI.8 1142 According to Aristotle's theory of rhetoric , phronesis is one of the three types of appeals to character ( ethos ).