Word: aristotelian
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Occasionally, he gets off an almost Aristotelian aphorism: "Music," he will say, pinching the bridge of his nose, "is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain...
...Almost Aristotelian. Content that he at last has the glorious instrument he has heard in his inner ear all his life. Szell still works tirelessly, training young conductors, learning new scores. His pedagoguery is perfectly undiminished: he gives golf lessons to golfers who play better, teaches tailors how to cut his tails so that the coat will not flap while he conducts: tight armholes, ballooning sleeves...
Lecherous Eunuch. The honeymoon of East and West is over, and Rama's intellectual career runs into a terrible occident. Logic seems to be the trouble (Hindus have a system of their own, a very non-Aristotelian affair). To the Western reader, Rama-whether in conflict with a Catholic, a Communist or a Freudian- appears, in the female manner, to counter an argument with a story about something else. Rama's efforts to Orientalize Europe's recent social and intellectual history are puzzling. He may be "devoted to Truth and all that," but what are Westerners...
...roots in the great tradition of the Catholic universities in the Middle Ages, when all-inclusive learning was no problem. Universities then organized their faculties around the "queen science" of theology, which supernaturally interpreted all natural knowledge. It was a time when St. Thomas, the breathtaking synthesizer of Aristotelian reason and Christian faith, could say: "The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as a dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false...
...strict Aristotelian, Shakespeare is a kind of monumental fluke of genius, and Steiner skillfully covers a century of frantic effort among playwrights and critics to make Shakespeare and Sophocles compatible within the house of tragedy. The zenith of the neoclassic movement was Racine, and Steiner makes a powerful case for him as the last bona fide playwright of tragedy. The fact remains that Racine's greatest play, Phedre, draws half its impact from the Greek myth and Euripidean play on which it is based...