Comments on: Aristotle and the Cult of the Immediate http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/aristotle-and-the-cult-of-the-immediate/ Place. Limits. Liberty. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: harvey http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/aristotle-and-the-cult-of-the-immediate/#comment-5407 harvey Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:43:44 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4241#comment-5407 Nice post. Well articulated. In respect to Aristolian ethics, few have understood that they hinge on friendship. Nice post. Well articulated. In respect to Aristolian ethics, few have understood that they hinge on friendship.

]]> By: Aristotle and Virtue Politics « Midwest Catholic Dad http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/aristotle-and-the-cult-of-the-immediate/#comment-5065 Aristotle and Virtue Politics « Midwest Catholic Dad Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:36:19 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4241#comment-5065 [...] differences between Aristotle’s political philosophy and what we have to deal with today. Aristotle and the Cult of the Immediate: For example, in the Ethics, Aristotle distinguishes between pleasure and happiness. Pleasures are [...] [...] differences between Aristotle’s political philosophy and what we have to deal with today. Aristotle and the Cult of the Immediate: For example, in the Ethics, Aristotle distinguishes between pleasure and happiness. Pleasures are [...]

]]> By: ADF Alliance Alert » Aristotle and the cult of the immediate http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/aristotle-and-the-cult-of-the-immediate/#comment-5021 ADF Alliance Alert » Aristotle and the cult of the immediate Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:11:07 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4241#comment-5021 [...] Federici writes at Front Porch Republic: One of the reasons why political philosophy tends not to be a reservoir of intellectual capital [...] [...] Federici writes at Front Porch Republic: One of the reasons why political philosophy tends not to be a reservoir of intellectual capital [...]

]]> By: Empedocles http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/aristotle-and-the-cult-of-the-immediate/#comment-5009 Empedocles Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:26:30 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4241#comment-5009 After reading The Nicomachean Ethics, I'd suggest picking up Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue if you haven't read it already, and Phillipa Foote's Natural Goodness. I'll also plug my entry "On Human Virtue" http://apoxonbothyourhouses.blogspot.com/2009/02/on-human-virtue-on-my-entry-of-january.html After reading The Nicomachean Ethics, I’d suggest picking up Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue if you haven’t read it already, and Phillipa Foote’s Natural Goodness. I’ll also plug my entry “On Human Virtue” http://apoxonbothyourhouses.blogspot.com/2009/02/on-human-virtue-on-my-entry-of-january.html

]]> By: V. Maro Grammaticus http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/aristotle-and-the-cult-of-the-immediate/#comment-5008 V. Maro Grammaticus Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:26:00 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4241#comment-5008 Great article. Much of conservative talk about "values" fails to mention the very obvious Aristotelian insight that mores and "sins" have not been arbitrarily chosen, but those pleasures that we call sinful we do so not because they are pleasant, but because they are distinctly not pleasant in the long-term. Questioning those values in the name of liberation is, of course, ignoring the collective wisdom of tradition, which was not, necessarily, received from on high or chosen arbitrarily, but learned through gradual trial-and-error. Oddly enough, Gov. Sanford brought up this insight at his press conference when he talked about activities being branded as sinful to protect people from themselves. Yours, &c, Maro Great article.

Much of conservative talk about “values” fails to mention the very obvious Aristotelian insight that mores and “sins” have not been arbitrarily chosen, but those pleasures that we call sinful we do so not because they are pleasant, but because they are distinctly not pleasant in the long-term. Questioning those values in the name of liberation is, of course, ignoring the collective wisdom of tradition, which was not, necessarily, received from on high or chosen arbitrarily, but learned through gradual trial-and-error. Oddly enough, Gov. Sanford brought up this insight at his press conference when he talked about activities being branded as sinful to protect people from themselves.

Yours, &c,
Maro

]]> By: D.W. Sabin http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/06/aristotle-and-the-cult-of-the-immediate/#comment-4997 D.W. Sabin Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:32:19 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=4241#comment-4997 After wallowing around in the immediacentric debate surrounding categories of conservative and then stumbling into this elegant bit of clear and present wisdom is like switching from a mad kegger at a Grateful Dead Concert to sitting at a desert campfire, listening to Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert by starlight and sipping a little Laphroaig, neat....but only one, maybe two, at most. I feel better already. After wallowing around in the immediacentric debate surrounding categories of conservative and then stumbling into this elegant bit of clear and present wisdom is like switching from a mad kegger at a Grateful Dead Concert to sitting at a desert campfire, listening to Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert by starlight and sipping a little Laphroaig, neat….but only one, maybe two, at most.

I feel better already.

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