“... Golden Dawn’s thugs than with the general lack of money. In the quiet tree-lined roads west of Aristotle Square, largely inhabited by the Georgians and Black Sea Greeks who arrived after the Soviet breakup, things were quiet and the people on the streets looked thin. As well as more orthodox activities, the crisis has hit the gun-running and drugs business ...”

“... and served the ethical development of the community. In the representative regime, outlined by Aristotle but codified only in the 17th and 18th centuries, ‘the intelligibility of human actions’ became the central criterion of art, which made the refinement of mimesis its essential task. To this end the liberal arts were separated from the ...”

“... Descartes and Kant received their due and that French students were protected from the errors of Aristotle and Hegel. To rebel against Brunschvig’s Neo-Kantianism was thus necessarily a political as well as a philosophical project. Perhaps the most important resources for that project were provided by the lectures that Alexandre Kojève gave on Hegel’s ...”

“... of Proper Names’, L. Jonathan Cohen argues that, for example, one and the same name, ‘Aristotle’, denotes both the ancient philosopher and the modern ship-owner. This leads him to a meta-linguistic theory of naming: whether ‘Cicero denounced Cataline’ is true will depend on how Cicero is named. That in turn leads him to the conclusion that ...”

“... Perhaps the difference in attitude is to be accounted for by the strange belief, expressed by Aristotle and by medical writers in the fourth century and after, that menstrual blood was identical with what is now known as amniotic fluid, which was regarded by them as the female equivalent of male semen, and thus a sustaining substance as well as a form of ...”

“... new life was constantly appearing, there manifestly was a God. The most acute observers, including Aristotle, had always given preformation short shrift. ‘Epigenesis’ – the gradual emergence of embryonic organs and structures from an undifferentiated state of matter, under the controlling action of a local formative agent – could be directly inferred ...”

“... for their legacy from Antiquity some very difficult and interesting statements in the Gospels and Aristotle. (The passages from these authorities should not be attempted in translation, not even in Mr Jackson’s.) The second period opens in the late Middle Ages and bursts into life with the voyages of discovery, the conquests in America, and the inauguration ...”

“... many otherwise barely related lines of thought. Vitruvius and the Vitruvians loom large, but so do Aristotle, Plato and Hegel. A routine summary of Alberti, Serlio and Palladio is spiced with excursions into Fréart de Chantelou, Quatremère de Quincy and Diego da Sagredo. Le Brun’s physiognomic drawings are set in the context of Cartesian psychology and the ...”

“... behind considerations of what makes human lives go well or badly – the foundations on which Aristotle and Aquinas built their whole theories. It can’t be done.The content-neutral analysis of moral language fails at the linguistic level, but that is because the disconnect between fact and value on which it is based is false, and our language recognises ...”

“... realisation that the natural world had a life of its own ... ’ The view was fully propounded in Aristotle. Furthermore, although attempts were made to classify things in a non-anthropocentric way, Thomas shows that Linnaeus himself classified dogs by their human uses, and even today lawyers impose human criteria on animals. Likewise, though there was a ...”

“... oral sex’ he ever had. Between the assassination of Kennedy in November 1963 and her marriage to Aristotle Onassis in October 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy’s life had much in common with that of the governess in The Turn of the Screw, constantly frightened by ghosts, apparitions and fresh horrors. She had two beautiful small children in her care, and she took ...”

“... philosophy could have made us think otherwise. Her evidence covers a wide range, from Plato and Aristotle to Proust and Henry James, and though she takes a critical interest in thinkers, mostly of the Stoic tradition, who have promoted the rival virtues of self-sufficiency, she writes to call attention to those who preach and practise sympathy. These ...”

“... as somehow unnatural. The family name Phalacrocoracidae – ‘bald ravens’ – was derived from Aristotle, who called the cormorant ‘hydrokorax’, ‘water raven’. Like the raven, to which it bears a metaphorical though not morphological relationship, the cormorant still has an aura of ill omen attached to it. This aspect of Wires’s book adds an ...”

“... who works out who the prospective murderer is by immersing himself in the theory of comedy, from Aristotle to Kierkegaard. The joke is that in real life, intellectuals are no more use than comedians. Both the policeman and the comedian, whose audience the assassin characterises as ‘Radio 4-listening, Guardian-reading, Pinot Grigio-swilling middle-class ...”

“... discussion of the distinction between the spiritual and the physical. They quoted Plato, Aristotle and Virgil, in Greek and Latin, and threw out definitions and manipulated words and phrases. Such discussions could take place only at Oxford, I thought. It’s so English. People here are so intelligent.’ And these were just the students. Next he had ...”