Darrell P. Arnold, PH.D.

All
Art and Music
Community Philosophy Forum
Contemporary politics
Courses
Eastern Philosophy
Ecology
Epistemology
Gallery
Heraclitus
Heraclitus' Fragments -- a Commentary
History of Philosophy
Humanities
Integral Ecology
Logic and Critical Thinking
Metaphysics
Mind
Moral theory
On Art and Music
On Reason
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Poetry
Political Philosophy
Politics
Psyche
Quotes
Reason
Religion
Reviews
Soul

Aristotle’s Ethics (3)

Courses, History of Philosophy, Moral theory, Politics

October 14, 2018/by Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS For Aristotle ethics and politics are fundamentally intertwined. He understands both domains functionally. The human function or purpose, he argues,...

/ 0/

Read Full Story

Plato on justice (4)

Art and Music, History of Philosophy, Moral theory, On Art and Music, Politics, Soul

October 7, 2018/by Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS While Socrates embodied virtue in his life and came to be seen in the Antique world as an archetype for...

/ 0/

Read Full Story

Plato on Gyges’ Ring (3)

History of Philosophy, Moral theory, Philosophy

October 6, 2018/by Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Plato has a multifaceted study of justice, taking up the topic in numerous dialogues throughout his career. Here I will...

/ 0/

Read Full Story

Socrates (2): The Trial and Death

History of Philosophy, Moral theory, Philosophy, Politics

September 25, 2018/by Darrell Arnold

The Death of Socrates (Jacque-Louis David, 1787) RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Socrates is philosophy's most famous martyr. Yet he wasn't the first tried in the...

/ 0/

Read Full Story

Socrates (1)

History of Philosophy, Moral theory, Philosophy, Politics

September 21, 2018/by Darrell Arnold

Portrait of Socrates. Marble, Roman artwork (1st century), perhaps a copy of a lost bronze statue made by Lysippos RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Cicero said...

/ 0/

Read Full Story