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591 | Excellence is a sort of completion [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: Excellence is a sort of completion. | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1021b19) |
625 | Is excellence separate from things, or part of them, or both? [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: Does the universe possess goodness and excellence as something separated and by itself, or because of its arrangement? But why should it not be both ways? | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1075a14) |
22472 | The practice of justice may well need a recognition of human equality [Foot] |
Full Idea: I wonder whether the practice of justice may not absolutely require a certain recognition of equality between human beings, not a pretence of the equality of talents, but something deeper. | |
From: Philippa Foot (Nietzsche's Immoralism [1991], p.152) | |
A reaction: {My 'something deeper' is expressed by Foot in a quotation from Gertrude Stein]. This may well be the most fundamental division which runs across a society - between those who accept and those reject human equality. |
621 | Contemplation is a supreme pleasure and excellence [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: Contemplation is a supreme pleasure and excellence. | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1072b22) |