In Physics, Book II, Ch. 3 Aristotle distinguishes four causes or, better, four explanatory factors that can be given in the answer to the question of why an entity changes in whatever ways it does ...

Plato's own pupil, Aristotle, was born in 384 BC and began as an ardent supporter of his teacher. However, gradually he modified his teacher's views and turned away from the world of ideas back to ...

The great Greek philosopher, Aristotle, was one of the first. He thought that slavery was a natural thing and that human beings came in two types - slaves and non-slaves. For that some should rule ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Aristotle thinks that happiness is an activity – it consists in doing something – rather than a feeling. It is the best activity of which ...

After losing her first husband, Jacqueline Kennedy and long-time friend Aristotle Onassis began a romance that would lead to getting married on Oct. 20, 1968. On the anniversary of their short ...

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Small caps enjoyed strong gains in Q3, with the Russell 2000 index delivering a total return of 9.27%, but the performance ...

What is beauty? It’s one of the oldest questions in Western philosophy. Once, great thinkers considered it to be a value as solid and unchanging as a hunk of marble, prized alongside goodness ...

U.S. corporate credit markets delivered strong performance in the third quarter, as U.S. yields declined sharply and ...

Since 2007, CNBC has been ranking all 50 states across ten categories of competitiveness to determine the best overall states in which to do business. Behind the rankings are dozens of metrics ...