In fact, according to Aristotle, return on capital was a violation of the nature of things.
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As Aristotle said, friendship is a relationship in which people come to share the same soul.
He invented a third puppet, Simplicio, who speaks, stumblingly, for Aristotle and the establishment the other World System.
Or would he still have made the leap into the pantheon inhabited by Aristotle, Galileo, and Newton?
Instead it has become a way of life where, as Aristotle said, virtue has become its own reward.
Some experts say Aristotle meant "well-being" when he wrote that humans can attain eudaimonia by fulfilling their potential.
We can trace the foundation of economic theory in a species anthropology of basically equal capabilities back to Aristotle.
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Marios-Aristotle also sees opportunity in Greece's future, and he is not afraid of the pain that may still come.
Aristotle picked up the theme, explaining that good self-love is vital for intimacy.
Taking a grim view of the Periclean era in Athens, Plato and Aristotle believed that democracy inevitably led to tyranny.
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After those came Plato, briefly, and finally Aristotle (whom she would later cite as her only influence, literary or otherwise).
She said the book was attributed to Aristotle but there is little, if any, of his work in the text.
That is a rough summary of a long lecture containing just the right number of non-intimidating allusions to Kant and Aristotle.
"Eudaimonia" is a Greek word associated with Aristotle and often mistranslated as "happiness" which has contributed to misunderstandings about what happiness is.
I'm not arguing for a return to classic liberal arts education--it's not as if sixth-graders are suddenly going to start reading Aristotle.
Galen had learned most of what he knew about sleep from Aristotle, who had pronounced confidently on the question (as he had on most scientific issues).
Packet-switching works for a variety of engineering reasons, not because it somehow embodies in code the distilled wisdom of Aristotle, Rousseau, Locke, and Madison.
And the best argument, often the only argument, for all these beliefs was that Aristotle had said so, and who were you to say otherwise?
Her placement of Aquinas as second only to Aristotle was based on his reliance on reason and his belief that redemption was an individual responsibility.
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The 27-minute movement provides, as Aristotle said tragedy should, a confrontation with pity and fear that leaves us feeling tired, but somehow cleansed and comforted.
Squeezing his research into evenings after long days delivering babies, he began by questioning the theory, held since Aristotle, that the mother's body instigated labour.
Galen, writing five centuries after him, corrected Aristotle the warm meal went directly to the brain, where it plugged the pores by which sensations entered and exited.
There were tirades against Aristotle and scholasticism, aimed at the universities.
During the period that goes from Aristotle to Adam Smith, there is an abundance of moral philosophers and jurists who have focused on distributive justice.
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"The catharsis idea -- that's a common explanation that Aristotle gave, that by viewing great tragedies, audience members could purge or cleanse their emotions, " Bushman said.
The new test "has sort of thrown everyone into a tailspin, " said Janet Roberts, the director of education at Aristotle Circle, a tutoring and consulting firm.
All three of Aristotle, neoliberals, and Marx presume that the most important thing about us humans is our shared species being as pretty much naturally equal organisms.
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Their account appears to be based on unreliable popularisations, and they cannot even get right the number of elements in Aristotle's universe (it is five, not four).
Aristotle saw ethics, virtue, character and excellence as intrinsically intertwined.
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