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Massive enterprises must have major incentives. Somebody has to show everybody—or almost everybody—that sacrifices made now will bear fruit later. And the ones Pericles had in mind were not to the gods, as in earlier times,17 but for a city that had become a state that was becoming an empire. Which had to remain, nonetheless, a community. If Athens
... See moreJohn Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
- PERICLES
Without prejudice toward either philosopher, what we can say with confidence is that you will have a better chance of realizing happiness if you can see yourself as a dynamic agent of your own progress. If you’d like to become more Aristotelian in your self-understanding, here are three steps to get you started.
1. Find the person you want to be.
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1. Find the person you want to be.
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Arthur Brooks • Are You a Platonist or an Aristotelian?
Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, said the main motivation of his life was, “To be a good ancestor.”
In philosophy, Athens contributes only two great names, Socrates and Plato. Plato belongs to a somewhat later period, but Socrates passed his youth and early manhood under Pericles.