object-matter

Barnett Newman said “Most people think of subject-matter as what Meyer Shapiro has called ‘object-matter.’”

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His proper object-matter seems to be the pleasures and pains which arise out of social intercourse, but whenever it is not honourable or even hurtful to him to contribute to pleasure, in these instances he will run counter and prefer to give pain.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

[Sidenote: 1124a] Honour then and dishonour are specially the object-matter of the Great-minded man: and at such as is great, and given by good men, he will be pleased moderately as getting his own, or perhaps somewhat less for no honour can be quite adequate to perfect virtue: but still he will accept this because they have nothing higher to give him.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

So the coward, the rash, and the Brave man have exactly the same object-matter, but stand differently related to it: the two first-mentioned respectively exceed and are deficient, the last is in a mean state and as he ought to be.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

The first step is a Wish, implied in the first here mentioned, viz. Deliberation, for it has been already laid down that Deliberation has for its object-matter means to Ends supposed to be set before the mind, the next step is Deliberation, the next Decision, the last the definite extending of the mental hand towards the object thus selected, the two last constitute [Greek: proairesis] in its full meaning.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

[Sidenote: 1129a] Now the points for our inquiry in respect of Justice and Injustice are, what kind of actions are their object-matter, and what kind of a mean state Justice is, and between what points the abstract principle of it, i.e. the Just, is a mean.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

It is plain then that the object-matter of Imperfect Self-Control and

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

The three mean states which have been described do occur in life, and the object-matter of all is interchange of words and deeds.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Some inquiry into the bodily Pleasures is also necessary for those who say that some Pleasures, to be sure, are highly choiceworthy (the good ones to wit), but not the bodily Pleasures; that is, those which are the object-matter of the man utterly destitute of Self-Control.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Yet it may seem to be necessary nevertheless, for one who wishes to become a real artist and well acquainted with the theory of his profession, to have recourse to general principles and ascertain all their capacities: for we have already stated that these are the object-matter of sciences.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle