{"id":3842,"date":"2011-08-02T18:28:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T18:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vamtam.com\/studium-clients\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2011-08-02T18:28:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T18:28:56","slug":"why-not-trust-aristotle-quality-is-not-an-act-it-is-a-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/02\/why-not-trust-aristotle-quality-is-not-an-act-it-is-a-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality is not an act.  It is a habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aristotle \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0384\u2014322 ,<a href=\"http:\/\/vamtam.com\/studium\"> Greek philosopher<\/a>, b. Stagira. He is sometimes called the Stagirite.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aristotle&#8217;s father, Nicomachus, was a noted physician. Aristotle studied (367\u2014347 ) under Plato at the Academy and there wrote many dialogues that were praised for their eloquence. Only fragments of these dialogues are extant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He tutored (342\u2014c.339 ) Alexander the Great at the Macedonian court, left to live in Stagira, and then returned to Athens. In 335 he opened a school in the Lyceum; some distinguished members of the Academy followed him. His practice of lecturing in the Lyceum&#8217;s portico, or covered walking place (peripatos), gave his school the name Peripatetic. During the anti-Macedonian agitation after Alexander&#8217;s death, Aristotle fled in 323 to Chalcis, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>Aristotle&#8217;s extant writings consist largely of his written versions of his lectures; some passages appear to be interpolations of notes made by his students; the texts were edited and given their present form by [highlight type=&#8221;dark&#8221;]Andronicus[\/highlight] \u00a0of Rhodes in the 1st cent. Chief among them are the Organum, consisting of six treatises on logic; Physics; Metaphysics; De Anima [on the soul]; Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics; De Poetica [poetics]; Rhetoric; and a series of works on biology and physics. In the late 19th cent. his Constitution of Athens, an account of Athenian government, was found.<\/p>\n<p>[divider_1] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aristotle \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0384\u2014322 , Greek philosopher, b. Stagira. He is sometimes called the Stagirite. Aristotle&#8217;s father, Nicomachus, was a noted physician. Aristotle studied (367\u2014347 ) under Plato at the Academy and there wrote many dialogues that were praised for their eloquence. Only fragments of these dialogues are extant. He tutored (342\u2014c.339 ) Alexander the Great at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/02\/why-not-trust-aristotle-quality-is-not-an-act-it-is-a-habit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quality is not an act.  It is a habit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,11],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aristotle","tag-aristotle","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgkylaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}