I’m curious why you opted for Aristotle (albeit “modern”) as the prompt pre-load? Most of those responses seem not directly tethered to Aristotelian concepts/books or even what he directly posits as being the most important skills and faculties of human cognition. For example, cold reading, I don’t recall anything of the sort anywhere in any Aristotle I’ve read.
While we’re not sure Aristotle himself designed the layout of the corpus, we do know that in the Nicomachean Ethics lists the faculties of “whereby the soul attains Truth”:
Techne (Τεχνε) - which refers to conventional ways of achieving goals, i.e. without deliberation Episteme (Επιστήμε) - which is apodeiktike or the faculty of arguing from proofs Phronesis (Φρονέσις) - confusingly translated as “practical wisdom” this refers to the ability to deliberate to attain goals by means of deliberation. Excellence in phronesis is translated by the latinate word ‘Prudence’. Sofia (Σοφια) - often translated as ‘wisdom’ - Aristotle calls this the investigation of causes. Nous (Νους ) - which refers to the archai—or the ‘first principles’
According to Diogenes Laertius, the corpus (at least as it has come to us) divides into the practical books and the theoretical—the practical itself would be subdivided between the books on Techne (say Rhetoric and Poetics), and Phronesis (Ethics and Politics), the theoretical is then covered in works like the Metaphysics (which is probably not even a cohesive book, but a hodge-podge), Categories etc. etc.
This would appear to me to be a better guide for the timeless education in Aristotelian tradition and how we should guide a modern adaptation.
I’m curious why you opted for Aristotle (albeit “modern”) as the prompt pre-load? Most of those responses seem not directly tethered to Aristotelian concepts/books or even what he directly posits as being the most important skills and faculties of human cognition. For example, cold reading, I don’t recall anything of the sort anywhere in any Aristotle I’ve read.
While we’re not sure Aristotle himself designed the layout of the corpus, we do know that in the Nicomachean Ethics lists the faculties of “whereby the soul attains Truth”:
Techne (Τεχνε) - which refers to conventional ways of achieving goals, i.e. without deliberation
Episteme (Επιστήμε) - which is apodeiktike or the faculty of arguing from proofs
Phronesis (Φρονέσις) - confusingly translated as “practical wisdom” this refers to the ability to deliberate to attain goals by means of deliberation. Excellence in phronesis is translated by the latinate word ‘Prudence’.
Sofia (Σοφια) - often translated as ‘wisdom’ - Aristotle calls this the investigation of causes.
Nous (Νους ) - which refers to the archai—or the ‘first principles’
According to Diogenes Laertius, the corpus (at least as it has come to us) divides into the practical books and the theoretical—the practical itself would be subdivided between the books on Techne (say Rhetoric and Poetics), and Phronesis (Ethics and Politics), the theoretical is then covered in works like the Metaphysics (which is probably not even a cohesive book, but a hodge-podge), Categories etc. etc.
This would appear to me to be a better guide for the timeless education in Aristotelian tradition and how we should guide a modern adaptation.