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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 ...
In 322 BCE, Aristotle was forced to flee Athens with his family when the political leadership reacted against the Macedonians again and his previously published works supporting Macedonian rule left him a target. He passed on his Lyceum to Theophrastus and died later that year in Chalcis, near his hometown. [13]
All in all, only a few major works of Aristotle were never translated into Arabic. [8] Of these, the fate of Politics in particular remains uncertain. [9] The rest of Aristotle's books were eventually translated into Latin, but over 600 years later, from about the middle of the 12th century.
Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas on June 24, 1959. ... Onassis’ son Alexander died in a small plane accident at an airport in Athens, killing him at age 24. Onassis, she says, never recovered.
R. Gamaliel depicted in a medieval miniature. Gamaliel the Elder (/ ɡ ə ˈ m eɪ l i əl,-ˈ m ɑː-, ˌ ɡ æ m ə ˈ l iː əl /; [1] also spelled Gamliel; Hebrew: רַבַּן גַּמְלִיאֵל הַזָּקֵן Rabban Gamlīʾēl hazZāqēn; Koinē Greek: Γαμαλιὴλ ὁ Πρεσβύτερος Gamaliēl ho Presbýteros), or Rabban Gamaliel I, was a leading authority in the ...
The Bible [a] is a collection of religious texts and scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, and partly in Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The texts ...
At his first inauguration in 2017, Mr. Trump did place his hand on the two Bibles - the family Bible and the Lincoln Bible - when he took the oath of office. Mr.
According to a Babylonian astronomical diary, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon between the evening of 10 June and the evening of 11 June 323 BC, [1] at the age of 32. Macedonians and local residents wept at the news of the death, while Achaemenid subjects were forced to shave their heads. [ 2 ]