It was actually more a concept of moderation, of finding a middle way between extremes:The idea of "balance" seems simple, but as I think on it, it just grows the more significant. I'm guessing the balance beam was a common and important tool in their lives - perhaps one in every home. One arrives at (for me) a dimly seen concept of balance, juxtaposed against ideas of either/or, neither/nor. Balance, it would seem, is part pragmatic and part nefer. And to be sure, all balance is a matter of moment, and never endures. — tim wood
But I'd be interested in your opinion. Is this philosophy, or does "real" philosophy start in Greece? — WerMaat
Mortimer Adler, mid 20th-century American philosopher, wrote a book titled The Time of our Lives, in which he says he first thought of it as a re-writing of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics (which plan he discovered he had to expand for various reasons - Adler's an excellent book). Aristotle would seem to qualify as a philosopher. And now we learn - what most folks generally suspect in the breach - that Aristotle had at least in this case his own Aristotle, perhaps 2,000 years before him!They were mostly concerned with practical ethics: How to live your life in a successful and ethical fashion. — WerMaat
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