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Vacationing With Aristotle
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870808
Author:Colman McCarthy
Ordinarily I wouldn't recommend Aristotle for vacation reading, not for you, me or even a Grecophile. But this is the summer of Aristotle's favorite subjects: ethics, the integrity of the moral personality and the play between character and action. Behind the lies, cons or slack spines of this summer's scandal providers-North, Poindexter, Hart, Bakker, Boesky, Deaver, Nofziger-the footprints of Aristotle show that this is ground covered before. The scandals are new but not the particular slopes to the downfalls.
The "Nicomachean Ethics" and "Rhetoric" are Aristotle's investigations into ...
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