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- noun Alternative form of
Aristotelian . - adjective Alternative form of
Aristotelian .
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The latter goes to my scholarly interest in what I have called the “moral psychology of finance,” and somtimes called “virtue economics” — not in the sense of distributional justice in the economy, but instead the Aristotlean sense of “virtue ethics” and its intersection among practical reason, attitudes and rationality, and affective behavior and rational choice.
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Pre-scientific for sure, possibly pre-Aristotlean as well.
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The definition of a scene is Aristotlean: One action in one place at one time.
New novel, maybe joshenglish 2009
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The latter goes to my scholarly interest in what I have called the “moral psychology of finance,” and somtimes called “virtue economics” — not in the sense of distributional justice in the economy, but instead the Aristotlean sense of “virtue ethics” and its intersection among practical reason, attitudes and rationality, and affective behavior and rational choice.
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A kind of consensus theology of a very Aristotlean cast ruled Catholic theology from at least the 16th century until Vatican II, inspired by and interspersed with Thomistic revivals.
Two Years after Summorum Pontificum: The Situation in France 2009
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An Aristotlean philosophy was central to the exercise for the same reason that the language of classical physics is the calculus; experience showed that it was the best tool for the task.
Two Years after Summorum Pontificum: The Situation in France 2009
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The “out-of-the-mainsteam” Galileo had the gall to prove the consensus view, the Aristotlean theory, wrong by devising simple experiments that anyone could do.
The Varieties of Crackpot Experience Sean 2009
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When they did have a jurisprudential philosophy, it was much more of the Aristotlean ânatural lawâ approach.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Rosen on Sotomayor, Part Tres: 2009
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Following an Aristotlean protocol– though a protocol already present in the thought of Plato and perhaps even Parmenides –it seems as if matter is ineluctably conceived only in its negative, as the absence of form.
Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Following an Aristotlean protocol– though a protocol already present in the thought of Plato and perhaps even Parmenides –it seems as if matter is ineluctably conceived only in its negative, as the absence of form.
Perception of an absence where one misses something Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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