Gregory B. Sadler
The simple answer is that it is a Greek adjective meaning "intellectual" or "involving intellect or thinking", but I'm guessing that you're asking because my main blog is called "Orexis Dianoētikē".
That comes from a passage in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, in which he tells us that moral choice - the kind of choice that forms our characters - can be understood as orexis dianoētikē - desire involving intellect - or nous orektikos - intellect involving desire. So, it is sort of a juncture-point, you might say.
I picked that Greek term as the title for my blog, because that topic, and those interconnections, are a major area of my research - back when I started it, and still today.
That comes from a passage in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, in which he tells us that moral choice - the kind of choice that forms our characters - can be understood as orexis dianoētikē - desire involving intellect - or nous orektikos - intellect involving desire. So, it is sort of a juncture-point, you might say.
I picked that Greek term as the title for my blog, because that topic, and those interconnections, are a major area of my research - back when I started it, and still today.
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