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• Aristotle
  [[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:Aristotle-face-1.jpg|right|frame]] ...aphysics, [[mathematics]], [[physics]], [[biology]], botany, [[ethics]], [[politics]], agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre. He was a student of [[Plato]]
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• Revolution
  ...tructures]] that takes place in a [[relative]]ly short period of [[time]]. Aristotle described two types of political revolution: ^ Aristotle, The Politics V, tr. T.A. Sinclair (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1964, 1972), p. 190.
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• Statesmanship
  ...notable [[public]] figure who has had a long and respected [[career]] in [[politics]] or [[government]] at the national and international level. As a term of * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle] – "What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral char
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• Balance
  ...mathematical perfection) applied the principle to [[ethics]] as well as [[politics]]. Nothing in excess - was one of the three phrases carved into the temple
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• Public speaking
  ...ill]] in public and private life. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintilian Quintilian] discussed orator ...gh instruction in excellence. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato], Aristotle, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates Socrates] all developed theori
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• Common sense
  ===Aristotle and Ibn Sina=== According to [[Aristotle]] and Ibn Sina ([[Avicenna]]), common sense provides the place in which the
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• Politics
  ...gh the term is generally applied to [[behavior]] within civil governments, politics is observed in all [[human]] [[group]] interactions, including corporate, a ...pply [[policy]]. [https://www.thefreedictionary.com/politics Definition of politics from "The Free Dictionary"]
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• Sophism
  ...wisdom]] and especially wisdom about [[human]] affairs (in, for example, [[politics]], [[ethics]], or household [[management]]). This was the term given to the ...kipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle]), which makes it [[difficult]] to assemble an unbiased view of their [[pra
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• Western Philosophy
  ...hy]], [[music]], and many other subjects as indicated by [[Plato]]'s and [[Aristotle]]'s works, along with many other ancient and medieval [[philosophers]]. ...d has been greatly influenced by, Western [[religion]], [[science]], and [[politics]], and the philosophies of the [[Abrahamic religion]]s ([[Jewish philosophy
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• Chance
  ...effects that happen incidentally, but differentiated in the second book of Aristotle's Physics as follows: ...che (luck) and automaton (chance) are everyday [[phenomena]]. However, for Aristotle chance events were not uncaused, they were simply the effect of the concurr
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• Ethics
  ...d articulate the various virtues or good habits that should be acquired. [[Aristotle]] is a pioneer virtue ethicist. ...t these questions there is no clear fulcrum on which to balance [[law]], [[politics]], and the practice of [[arbitration]] — in fact, no common assumptions o
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• Metaphor
  ...s, both conservatives and liberals use 'family' metaphors for the national politics, though in different ways. Both types of usage would ultimately resolve to ...etaphor''' is a derogatory term coined by [[George Orwell]] in his essay [[Politics and the English Language]]. Orwell defines a dying metaphor as a metaphor t
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• Constitution
  ...refers specifically to a national constitution defining the fundamental [[politics|political]] principles, and establishing the structure, procedures, [[power ...tate". In his works ''[[Constitution of Athens]]'', [[Politics (Aristotle)|Politics]], and [[Nicomachean Ethics]] he explored different forms of constitutions,
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• Honesty
  Even [[Aristotle]] found it difficult to pin down honesty. Although he praised it as "noble, *Ekman, P. (2001). Telling lies: Clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics and marriage. New York: Norton & Co.
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• Social Sciences
  ...disciplines and others, the "humanities" or the [[liberal arts]]. Thus, [[Aristotle]] studied [[Orbit|planetary motion]] and poetry with the same methods, and ...s where there is no monetary consideration, such as [[public choice theory|politics]], [[law]], [[Experimental economics|psychology]], [[Economic history|histo
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• Academic
  ...ot at their parents' residence — in order to retain control of local politics. Other issues can include deep cultural and class divisions between local r ...ades]], another student, established the [[New Academy]]. In [[335 BC]], [[Aristotle]] refined the method with his own theories and established the [[Lyceum]] i
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• Books/Secondary Corpus
  ...ass-roots [[political]] (i.e., referred) [[power]], Whole Earth eschewed [[politics]] and pushed grassroots direct power—[[tools]] and [[skills]]. At a time ...ctrum of meanings in diverse contexts, ranging from Confucius to Plato and Aristotle, from classical Jewish literature to the New Testament. He also considers m
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• Humanities
  ...Greek philosophical tradition, represented by the works of [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]], was diffused throughout Europe and the Middle East by the conquests of [
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• Irony
  The term ''Socratic irony'', coined by Aristotle, refers to the [[Socratic Method]], and is not irony in the modern sense of *Hutcheon, Linda. ''Irony’s Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony''. London: Routledge, 1994.
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• History of the Concept of Mind, v.1-Chap.4
  *Contents: Ancient Hebrew and Homeric Greek life-force; Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic thought; From the New Testament to St Augustine; Medieval I learning: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, optics, medicine, logic and politics.
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