Being Nature And Life In Aristotle
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Author | : James G. Lennox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2010-11-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139493213 |
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This volume of essays explores major connected themes in Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of nature, and ethics, especially themes related to essence, definition, teleology, activity, potentiality, and the highest good. The volume is united by the belief that all aspects of Aristotle's work need to be studied together if any one of the areas of thought is to be fully understood. Many of the papers were contributions to a conference at the University of Pittsburgh entitled 'Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle', to honor Professor Allan Gotthelf's many contributions to the field of ancient philosophy; a few are contributions from those who were invited but could not attend. The contributors, all longstanding friends of Professor Gotthelf, are among the most accomplished scholars in the field of ancient philosophy today.
Author | : James G. Lennox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2010-11-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521768443 |
Download Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume of essays explores major connected themes in Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of nature, and ethics, especially themes related to essence, definition, teleology, activity, potentiality, and the highest good. The volume is united by the belief that all aspects of Aristotle's work need to be studied together if any one of the areas of thought is to be fully understood. Many of the papers were contributions to a conference at the University of Pittsburgh entitled 'Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle', to honor Professor Allan Gotthelf's many contributions to the field of ancient philosophy; a few are contributions from those who were invited but could not attend. The contributors, all longstanding friends of Professor Gotthelf, are among the most accomplished scholars in the field of ancient philosophy today.
Author | : Adriel M. Trott |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107036259 |
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Adriel M. Trott reads Aristotle's Politics through the internal cause definition of nature to develop an active and inclusive account of politics.
Author | : Hope May |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441182748 |
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is devoted to the topic of human happiness. Yet, although Aristotle's conception of happiness is central to his whole philosophical project, there is much controversy surrounding it. Hope May offers a new interpretation of Aristotle's account of happiness - one which incorporates Aristotle's views about the biological development of human beings. May argues that the relationship amongst the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and happiness, is best understood through the lens of developmentalism. On this view, happiness emerges from the cultivation of a number of virtues that are developmentally related. May goes on to show how contemporary scholarship in psychology, ethical theory and legal philosophy signals a return to Aristotelian ethics. Specifically, May shows how a theory of motivation known as Self-Determination Theory and recent research on goal attainment have deep affinities to Aristotle's ethical theory. May argues that this recent work can ground a contemporary virtue theory that acknowledges the centrality of autonomy in a way that captures the fundamental tenets of Aristotle's ethics.
Author | : David M. Balme |
Publisher | : Mathesis Publications |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrea Falcon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2005-09-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521854399 |
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Exploration of Aristotle's philosophy of nature in the light of scholarly insights.
Author | : James Edward John Altham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1995-04-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521479301 |
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A distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.
Author | : Christopher V. Mirus |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2022-03-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813235464 |
Download Being is Better Than Not Being Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In his contemplative works on nature, Aristotle twice appeals to the general principle that being is better than not being. Taking his cue from this claim, Christopher V. Mirus offers an extended, systematic account of how Aristotle understands being itself to be good. Mirus begins with the human, examining Aristotle’s well-known claim that the end of a human life is the good of the human substance as such—which turns out to be the good of the human capacity for thought. Human thought, however, is not concerned with human affairs alone. It is also contemplative, and contemplation is oriented toward the beauty of its objects. In each of the three branches of contemplative thought—mathematics, natural science, and theology—the intelligibility of being renders it beautiful to thought. Both in nature and in human life, moreover, the being that is beautiful through its intelligibility serves also as an end of motion and of action; hence it counts not only as beautiful (kalon), but also as good (agathon). The persistent concern of thought with the beautiful reveals what is at stake for human beings in Aristotle’s larger metaphysics of the good: in the connection between goodness and actuality that structures his natural science and metaphysics, in his explicit claim that being is better than not being, and in his concepts of order and determinacy, which help connect being with goodness. These in turn shed light on his concepts of the complete and the self-sufficient, on his teleological understanding of the four elements, and on the curious role of the honorable in his natural science and metaphysics.
Author | : Devin Henry |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107010365 |
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Explores the extent to which Aristotle's ethical treatises employ the concepts, methods, and practices developed in his 'scientific' works.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : SDE Classics |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781951570279 |
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