Aristotle

ore an original democratic model imposed by bombs, bombardments and invasions. What a strange democracy! It would be necessary to revise the ideas of Aristotle and the other Greek pioneers of democracy in the face of this model, imposed by marines, invasions, aggression and bombs. The President of the United

oximity to the border between Catholic Europe and al-Andalus, Islamic Spain. The road that led to the great city of Cordoba — where the philosophy of Aristotle was retranslated from Greek and Arabic into Latin and re-entered the thought of the Christian West in the renaissance of the twelfth century — passed

peace. Let us love one another the Lavalas way. May the peace of the rich be with the poor! May the peace of the poor be with the rich! According to Aristotle, politics demands a reciprocal and symmetrical relationship in which citizens are side by side and not one atop the other. To forge unity in diversit

ions, different historical backgrounds and differing philosophies. It is neither proper nor wise to think that a nation nurtured in the philosophy of Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas should react to political, economic and social events in exactly the same way as a nation whose philosophy stems from the individua

tence. What should be the ideal size of a State? Neither economics nor political science can give us a definitive answer to this question, of course. Aristotle, in his Politics, says that the size of the polis should permit all the inhabitants to be familiar with each other’s characters; it should be possibl

matter of a year, or perhaps eighteen months, why I would ask can we not work together to solve some of the other great global challenges of our age? Aristotle wrote that “Nature has never done anything uselessly.” In other words, nature forces us to innovate. Choice doesn’t come into it. Aristotle lived int

ause respecting the rights of small peoples and States is a barometer of the observance of the Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Aristotle claimed that whoever is not part of the polis is either a beast or a god. What the individual used to be to the ancient cities is, in a way, what the

spect for democracy and the rule of law to protect us from incursions on our sovereignty and disregard for our rights. Centuries ago, the philosopher Aristotle spoke a compelling truth when he said of the State: “A State is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual c

the developed world, a lesson in freedom. Such historical eruptions always come as a surprise. They require from us all the radical astonishment that Aristotle considered as the very beginning of philosophy, the first step towards true wisdom and a radical emancipation from our prejudices and dogmas. Very fe

throughout history, that people naturally want to be free from fear and repression. Notice I said people, not “men”. As long ago as 2,500 years ago, Aristotle noted that where “the state of women is bad, almost half of human life is spoilt”. This is no less true today and will remain so. The ongoing revolut

down an orderly framework for global financial and economic transactions, we urge that the international community apply the principle enunciated by Aristotle upwards of 2,000 years ago that there should be equality between equals and proportionality between unequals.

— have a responsibility to preserve the habitability of our planet and hand over to our children a better world than the one bequeathed to us. It was Aristotle who said that nature acts as if she foresees the future, and currently nature’s auguries are not encouraging at all. We cannot afford to forget that

he Caribbean. Its dunes are our forests, its mosques our cathedrals. But I believe that such differences are at the very heart of the United Nations. Aristotle posited that things are distinguished by what they look like. Here, within this haven, nations are similar precisely in that they are distinct, becau

ce man's enthusiasm and the enthusiasm of peoples for solidarity in moments of misfortune and rejoicing in times of triumph will not be aroused. 107. Aristotle said, nearly four centuries before the birth of Christ, that inequality is always the cause of revolutions. And according to the same philosopher the

ctions between the two groups of countries grow ceaselessly more acute, and the essential still remains to be done. 292. The North refuses to endorse Aristotle's belief that wealth resided far more in use than in possession. 293. It also disregards these wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization perhaps doe

Aristotle long ago perceived a fundamental truth which is as valid today in terms of relations between States as it was 2,000 years ago in terms of relations b

This, in the view of my delegation, is the very essence of resolution 242(1967) of the Security Council. As the philosopher Aristotle has said, an unjust victory cannot convey a just claim. 89. I should like to turn now to the problem of the representation of China within the Organi

As Aristotle saw it, justice demands that one should give everybody that which is his. As his thought has been developed in Christian philosophy, that which is hi

to and honour in his dealings with his fellow man. The world has had many great teachers and philosophers such as Christ, Mohammed, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Buddha, Confucius and others who sought to lay down certain concepts of religion and moral conduct; but men, like nations, have generally interprete

tional obligations. The Organization passes a judgment, and does not give an opinion, on these objective conditions; and since the days of Greece and Aristotle’s logic, we know that there is a difference between opinion, which is arbitrary in nature, and judgment, which must be based on definite grounds. We

in the case of Greece, a country which occupied so high a place in the history of civilization through the far-reaching influence of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Aeschylus and Anacreon, and the incomparable marble beauty of the mutilated Venus of Melos or the headless Victory of Samothrace. 166. W

It was a principle as old as Aristotle that potentiality must depend on actuality for its own realization; what was possible could not, by itself, realize itself. Consequently, when vast a