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Aristotle

  • Aristotle, the Pope, and Income Inequality

    Aristotle argued that a stable democracy required a strong middle class. The Pope, in his recently published Exhortation, argues against the ideology hurting the poor and destroying the middle class. This article examines how the income inequality came about and how it could be corrected. Read more

  • The Shortcomings of the 2012 Republican Platform

    The Republican Party has approved this platform and many of its provisions would make sweeping changes in programs that benefit the middle class and the poor. It is in many ways more extreme than Mitt Romney would have wished, and it may make his candidacy more difficult. This describes the main provisions of the platform… Read more

  • Aristotle's Contribution to Science, Education, and Physics

    Aristotle thought that Nature could best be understood by observation and reason and that all knowledge should be open to examination and subject to reason. Read more

  • Science Literacy and Religious Beliefs

    Scientific literacy cannot be measured by a litmus test such as belief in the BIg Bang or evolution theory. Doing so confuses knowledge with the persons beliefs. Read more

  • Aristotle's Lessons from the Past

    “Aristotle gave us a universe whose laws are invariant and capable of being discovered by observation and reason.”  In ancient times, nature had been explained as the actions of the gods. The early Greek philosophers questioned the role of the gods as the cause of events and by the fifth century B.C. the Greek philosophers, such as… Read more