The present essay is an attempt to assess Aristotle’s claim that man as “a political animal” made in his treatise The Politics. Obviously, such an assessment requires clear understanding of what the philosopher meant by his definition given three hundred years BC. And the only way to grasp the meaning of Aristotle’s writings is […]
Writing about Aristotle criticizing Epicurus we should bear in mind that the situation is purely imaginary because Aristotle died when Epicurus was only 19 (in 322 BC) and had no time to create any philosophical theory. It is highly probable that Epicurus was aware of Aristotle’s teaching and included some elements of it in his […]