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‘전쟁이 만든 평화’ 얼마나 갈 것 같은가? » 바티칸 박물관에 소장되어 있는 야누스 신상. 두 얼굴의 야누스는 연말연시의 전환뿐 아니라 전쟁과 평화의 전환을 맡고 있기도 하다. 고전 오디세이 22 야누스 신전과 평화 내전의 원인은 다름 아닌 정의의 실종이었다. ‘각자의 몫이 각자에게’돌아갔..

The almost universal Imperfection of all resonance phenomena is connected with the spatio-temporal properties of our universe: to be in perfect resonance, the distance between two oscillators would have to be a precise multiple of their wave-length; which is impossible if the oscillators are in relative motion, or are themselves extended physical systems rather than mass points. Moreover, the r..

Posterior Analytic Written 350 B.C.E In Two Webpage Parts - Part Two Translated by William Ogle BOOK TWO Part 1 The kinds of question we ask are as many as the kinds of things which we know. They are in fact four:-(1) whether the connexion of an attribute with a thing is a fact, (2) what is the reason of the connexion, (3) whether a thing exists, (4) What is the nature of the thing. Thus, when ..

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Written 350 B. C. E In Ten Parts - Part Ten Translated by W. D. Ross Book X 1 After these matters we ought perhaps next to discuss pleasure. For it is thought to be most intimately connected with our human nature, which is the reason why in educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain; it is thought, too, that to enjoy the things we ought ..

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Written 350 B. C. E In Ten Parts - Part Nine Translated by W. D. Ross Book IX 1 In all friendships between dissimilars it is, as we have said, proportion that equalizes the parties and preserves the friendship; e. g. in the political form of friendship the shoemaker gets a return for his shoes in proportion to his worth, and the weaver and all other craftsmen do t..

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Written 350 B. C. E In Ten Parts - Part Seven Translated by W. D. Ross 1 Let us now make a fresh beginning and point out that of moral states to be avoided there are three kinds-vice, incontinence, brutishness. The contraries of two of these are evident,-one we call virtue, the other continence; to brutishness it would be most fitting to oppose superhuman virtue, ..

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Written 350 B. C. E In Ten Parts - Part One Translated by W. D. Ross 1 Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. But a certain difference is found among ends; some are activities, others are products apart from the a..

Pericles’ Funeral Oration Pericles Translated by R. Crawley Excerpted from Book 2 of Thucydides In the same winter the Athenians gave a funeral at the public cost to those who had first fallen in this war. It was a custom of their ancestors, and the manner of it is as follows. Three days before the ceremony, the bones of the dead are laid out in a tent which has been erected; and their friend..

Pericles’ Last Speech (Thucydides Book II, 59-64) Pericles Translated by Rex Warner (adapted) After the second invasion of the Peloponnesians there had been a change in the spirit of the Athenians. Their land had been twice devastated, and they had to contend with the war and the plague at the same time. Now they began to blame Pericles for having persuaded them to go to war and to hold him r..

감사한다, 살아있음은 너 때문이기에, 깨어있게 만드는 존재는 인간이기에 자극하라, 비난하라, 멸시하라, 그리하여 이룩되는 것은 너와 나의 세상이며 완성이다. 행동하지 않고 멈추고자 하면 누가 자극하겠는가, 누가 관심을 갖겠는가? 고독은 그렇게 찾아오고 죽음에 이르는 병이라는 말을 알지?