Browsing by Subject "Aristotle"

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Deconstructing Aristotelian Concept of Akrasia in Contemporary Perspective
(University of North Bengal, 2024-03) Garg, Arun
If there can be an agreement amongst all humans on one thing, it would definitely be on the issue of Good Life. Without exception, all beings on this planet aspire to achieve a Good Life, even though; the very nature of Good Life being aspired may vary immensely across the board. A great deal of analysis on the issue has happened since antiquity and philosophers and thinkers of different traditions and orientations have come forth with their conceptualizations on the matter but we are still far away from any universal definition of the idea of Good Life. Aristotle is one such philosopher of Greek Tradition who has undertaken the analysis of this question and attempted to offer a rational explanation of its form and nature. However, more than Aristotle’s conception of Good Life, it is his views on the obstructions that prevent us from achieving this goal, that are more important to understanding his ethical theory. The Greek term for this phenomenon is ‘Akrasia’, which may be translated as ‘Weakness of the Will’ or ‘Lack of Self-Control’. In this paper, this Aristotelian concept of ‘Akrasia’ will be deconstructed to understand its meaning as well its implications in the contemporary perspective.
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Different Meanings: a Brief Trajectory of the Concept of Difference
(University of North Bengal, 2018-03) Mitra, Zinia
The Anglo–American literary criticism (especially mid 1960s/70s) gives us an impression that the term ‘difference’ must have originated in the structuralist model of analysis in the works of Ferdinand de Saussure. The arrival of poststructuralism dealt with the concept of difference in a different parlance in Derrida’s Writing and Difference or in Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition. However, the fundamental problem of the concept of difference has been central to the fundamental problems in philosophy and the concept has had an intriguing genealogy beginning in pre- Socratic Milesean and Pyrrhonist philosophy that came to be rooted in the idea of identity with Aristotle. The paper attempts to trace briefly the trajectory of the concept from the Milesean philosophers upto the middle of twentieth century.
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JOHN DORIS’ CRITIQUE ON ARISTOTLE’S CHARACTER FORMATION
(University of North Bengal, 2023-03) KONCH, MANIK