...to both parties, but are extremely rare. For such a friendship to develop, much time and intimacy are required as well as personal goodness, for it is easy to desire friendship but difficult to build or deserve a solid relationship of this kind. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Aristotle-s-Ethics-Book-VIII-Summaries-Chapter-III-The-Three-Kinds-of-Friendship.id-21,pageNum-95.html  

... is the dearest to the gods. And he who is that will presumably be also the happiest; so that in this way too the philosopher will more than any other be happy. from Nicomachean Ethics, X, 8....Aristotle This passage reminds me of what Sallustius wrote in On the Gods and the Cosmos, " ...to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot...

I challenge the Aristotelian idea of beauty. These are the things that great indie films are made of. I watched a glorious movie today. It was called Tsoti. Amazing. Christ I miss studying philosophy... meant to be shot You're the target Dead on the spot When I focus, I never miss It starts with a kiss She ricochets, and you don't notice. She's in your head, and you just don't notice.

After freaking out all week about my aristotle take home test today was the day I got it back. My teacher walked around the room and gave each of us a positive comment about our paper. When he got to me he gave me this really depressed and dissapointed look and then suddenly bursted into laughter and slapped the paper face down on my desk. I turned it over and there was a giant 100 on the paper...

I've been reading up on Aristotle's definition of metaphysics and I've come to this conclusion: the matter/form dichotomy overlooks the simpler explanation, that everything metaphysical in our world are combinations of matter and form. That is, it is not exclusively matter nor matter which contains form, nor is it exclusively form nor form which contains matter. Everything can be inspected to reveal...

Test - Monday Journal – Monday *  (One done) Hotel Rwanda – Tuesday Poetry- Wednesday ∴print done∴ Braveheart- Wednesday * Short Story- Friday Open work – Friday * Journey- Wednesday Essay-Next Friday... NEED TO START Hotel Rwanda Short Story Essay Santa Claus is watching so i better be good. AND ONTOP OF ALL THAT I WANT A NEW BOOK darkfever http://www.karenmoning.com/novels/darkfever/index.html

GOD!!!! Reflection Papers Out my ass!!!!! Hotel Rwanda Braveheart!! and for both i need to use Aristotle. Hotel Rwanda - Aristotle good person BraveHeart Aristotle- Tragic Hero I think i am going do die! because there is so much of him!!! he is making my head hurt! Oh and another hit for Santa Claus My teacher is like Santa Claus she know what you do in class! if you had something it...

...these ideas for one system of thought. I do, however, intend to compare some like thoughts and themes of famous, historical figures.   When we started on our first class readings, I randomly chose Aristotle’s Politics first, read the book (took about a month :/), and decided it was the most profound work I had read. Plato’s Republic read like a drag, “Who was this dude who packed all this important...

Tuesday nights with Fydor Dostoevsky. Bookstore. Impatience.

...stuff that will get me to post all the time on here......I'm calling it The Daily Crap. Just a bunch of random interesting crap. Quote of the Day "To perceive is to suffer." -Aristotle Site of the Day www.billmonk.com BillMonk is a site that you can keep track of how much you owe others or they owe you. I'm on there. Though, id rather not give that out.... Fact...