Aristotle Revies Book 1 2 And 3 Of Nicomachean Ethics

History and the Real: Foucault with Lacan

The entrance into world by beings is primal history [Urgeschichte] pure and simple.   From this primal history a region of problems must be developed   which we today are beginning to approach with greater clarity, the region of the mythic.
          Heidegger, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic ^1^

The Oedipus myth is an attempt to give epic form to the operation of a structure.
              Lacan, Television ^

By the madness which interrupts it, a work of art opens a void, a moment of silence, a question without answer, provokes a breach without reconciliation where the world is forced to question itself.
            Foucault, Madness and Civilization ^3^

The historicity proper to philosophy is located and constituted in the transition, the dialogue between hyperbole and finite structure, between that which exceeds the totality and the closed totality, in the difference between history and historicity.
        Derrida, "Cogito and the History of Madness" ^4^

    Satire

[1]   In spite of the difference between English and
    Continental philosophy, there is a link between Foucault
    and writers like Swift, as there was between Nietzsche and
    Paul Ree: "The first impulse to publish something of my
    hypotheses *concerning the origin* of morality," Nietzsche
    says, "was given to me by a clear, tidy and shrewd--also
    precocious--little book in which I encountered for the
    first time an *upside-down and perverse* species of
    genealogical hypothesis, the genuinely *English* type . . .
    _The Origin of the Moral Sensations_; its author Dr. Paul
    Ree" (emphasis mine).^5^   Taking this upside-down and
    perverse English type as a starting point, let us begin
    with the strange tale by Jonathan Swift.^6^

[2]   At the end of _Gulliver's Travels_, after returning
    from his exotic and rather unexpected voyage to the land of
    the Houyhnhnms, where...