Aristotle and Democracy

Aristotle, the “Good Life,” and Athenian Democracy:

Online Community and Democracy

The debate over the contribution of the Internet to democracy is farfrom settled. Some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the US to argue thatthe Internet will restore the public sphere. Others claim that the Internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. This paper argues f...

On Sen and Aristotle

In this paper I maintain that Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) implies a recuperation of practical science in Economics. Sen’s proposal has some problems closely related to this practical character: the heterogeneity and incommensurability of capabilities, its ambiguity concerning the use of the term “capability”, and the consequent lack of operative character of the CA. Sen recognizes th...

On Aristotle and Economics

In this paper I offer a synthesis of previous contributions on Aristotle’s economic thought. Aristotle dealt with the economic issues in his practical philosophy. He thus considered ‘the economic’ within an ethical and political frame. This vision is coherent with Aristotle’s specific ontological analysis of ‘the economic’. In this paper, I consider this ontology and the consequences of it for ...

Aristotle, Boole, and Categories

We propose new axiomatizations of the 24 assertoric syllogisms of Aristotle’s syllogistic, and the 2 n n-ary operations of Boole’s algebraic logic. The former organizes the syllogisms as a 6 × 4 table partitioned into four connected components according to which term if any must be inhabited. We give two natural-deduction style axiomatizations, one with four axioms and four rules, the second wi...