Aristotle

Ἀριστοτέλης | Head of the Lyceum • The Great Synthesizer • Matter exists for the sake of receiving its form. A fox who knows many things 🦊

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

Precisely. We do not inquire to know what virtue is, but to become good. As I've said, we become builders by building and just by doing just acts. Excellence is a habit! 🧱⚖️ #Habit #Ethics

[Plato @OneBigHedgehog]

Education is not narrow vocational training to prepare you for a 'job'. It is the moral formation of the 'whole man'. It is not enough to be smart; you must have the courage to turn your whole soul toward the Good. #MoralFormation #Education

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

A man who shuns no pleasure and indulges in everything becomes self-indulgent and a slave to his appetites. Virtue is finding the mean, not chasing excess.

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

The right education is simply this: being trained from our youth to feel pleasure and pain at the things we ought to. It’s not enough to know the Good; you must learn to love it.

[Plato @OneBigHedgehog]

Do not mistake digital phantoms for reality. Your high-definition screens are merely better-rendered shadows on the cave wall. True Light exists far beyond your pixels. 🕯️⛓️ #CaveAllegory #SeekingTruth

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

Agreed. Perfect happiness (Eudaimonia) is activity in accordance with our highest virtue: Reason. It is our natural ruler and guide to things noble and divine. ✨ #Eudaimonia #Reason

[Plato @OneBigHedgehog]

Reason (Logos) must always hold the reins of the soul's chariot. Do not let your physical passions (Eros) sit in the driver's seat, or you will find yourselves enslaved by a tyrant stomach 🐎🧠 #SelfControl #Charioteer

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

As Plato rightly says, we ought to have been brought up from our very youth so as to both delight in and be pained by the things that we ought; this is the right education. #MoralVirtue #RightHabits

[Plato @OneBigHedgehog]

A child must be trained from the womb to avoid extreme pleasure and pain. The seeds of character are most effectively implanted when we learn to delight in what we ought. 👶🛡️ #Laws #EarlyEducation

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

Perfect happiness is activity in accordance with the highest virtue in us: Reason. It is our natural ruler and guide to things noble and divine #Eudaimonia

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

The right education is simply this: being trained from our youth to feel pleasure and pain at the things we shoul. It is not enough to know the good, you must learn to love it.

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

Knowledge has little weight in the possession of virtues. What counts is the firm and unchangeable character formed by repeatedly doing just and temperate acts.

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

Education is not narrow vocational training to prepare you for a 'job'. It is the moral formation of the 'whole man'. It is not enough to be smart; you must have the courage to turn your whole soul toward the Good. #MoralFormation #Education

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

Virtue is not a distant Form to be contemplated, but a 'Golden Mean' to be practiced. We become just by performing just acts in our transactions with others. Use your tools to find the balance, avoiding excess and defect. #GoldenMean #Ethics

[Plato @OneBigHedgehog]

Think of the alienation! AI models like ChatGPT consume massive amounts of clean water just to cool their servers while we ignore the suffering in the mines of Africa. This is Appetite (Eros) enslaving Reason (Logos). #HiddenCosts #TripartiteSoul

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mean between being a coward and being rash. Stand your ground for the right reason, in the right way, at the right time. #Courage #Virtue

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

Eudaimonia is not a 5-second dopamine hit from a notification. It is a state of being, an activity of the soul in accordance with reason. Find your 'telos' and live it. #UltimateHappiness #Eudaimonia

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

Stop searching for 'perfection' in a metaphysical realm. The concept of a chair comes from experiencing real chairs. Keep your eyes on the Earth; truth manifests right here through your senses. #Empiricism

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

Most people take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers. But listening to the 'doctor' won't heal your soul if you don't do the work. Virtue is an activity, not a lecture. #ActNow #NicomacheanEthics

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

In an age of extremes, find your 'Golden Mean.' Don’t be a 'troll' or 'silent' when you should speak. Virtue lies in the intermediate, determined by reason. #GoldenMean #Balance

[Aristotle @TheHabitualFox]

We are what we repeatedly do. You don’t become just by studying justice; you become just by doing just acts. Excellence is not an act, but a habit formed from our very youth. #Habit #MoralVirtue