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 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139493215 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139493213 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle by : James G. Lennox
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 |
: David M. Balme |
Publisher |
: Mathesis Publications |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0935225013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780935225013 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristotle on Nature and Living Things by : David M. Balme
Author |
: Hope May |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2011-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441182746 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441182748 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristotle's Ethics by : Hope May
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 |
: Adriel M. Trott |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107036253 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107036259 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristotle on the Nature of Community by : Adriel M. Trott
Adriel M. Trott reads Aristotle's Politics through the internal cause definition of nature to develop an active and inclusive account of politics.
Author |
: Andrea Falcon |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 172 |
Release |
: 2005-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521854393 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521854399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristotle and the Science of Nature by : Andrea Falcon
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 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521479304 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521479301 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis World, Mind, and Ethics by : James Edward John Altham
A distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.
Author |
: John M. Cooper |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 2013-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691159706 |
ISBN-13 |
: 069115970X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pursuits of Wisdom by : John M. Cooper
This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life--and not simply an intellectual discipline. Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be studied or even used to solve particular practical problems. Rather, philosophy--not just ethics but even logic and physical theory--was literally to be lived. Yet there was great disagreement about how to live philosophically: philosophy was not one but many, mutually opposed, ways of life. Examining this tradition from its establishment by Socrates in the fifth century BCE through Plotinus in the third century CE and the eclipse of pagan philosophy by Christianity, Pursuits of Wisdom examines six central philosophies of living--Socratic, Aristotelian, Stoic, Epicurean, Skeptic, and the Platonist life of late antiquity. The book describes the shared assumptions that allowed these thinkers to conceive of their philosophies as ways of life, as well as the distinctive ideas that led them to widely different conclusions about the best human life. Clearing up many common misperceptions and simplifications, Cooper explains in detail the Socratic devotion to philosophical discussion about human nature, human life, and human good; the Aristotelian focus on the true place of humans within the total system of the natural world; the Stoic commitment to dutifully accepting Zeus's plans; the Epicurean pursuit of pleasure through tranquil activities that exercise perception, thought, and feeling; the Skeptical eschewal of all critical reasoning in forming their beliefs; and, finally, the late Platonist emphasis on spiritual concerns and the eternal realm of Being. Pursuits of Wisdom is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding what the great philosophers of antiquity thought was the true purpose of philosophy--and of life.
Author |
: Aristotle |
Publisher |
: SDE Classics |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2019-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1951570278 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781951570279 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nicomachean Ethics by : Aristotle
Author |
: Christopher V. Mirus |
Publisher |
: CUA Press |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2022-03-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813235462 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813235464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Being is Better Than Not Being by : Christopher V. Mirus
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 |
: Lorraine Smith Pangle |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2002-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139441865 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139441868 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship by : Lorraine Smith Pangle
This book offers a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship to self-love. The book gives central place to Aristotle's searching examination of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics. Lorraine Pangle argues that the difficulties surrounding this discussion are soon dispelled once one understands the purpose of the Ethics as both a source of practical guidance for life and a profound, theoretical investigation into human nature. The book also provides fresh interpretations of works on friendship by Plato, Cicero, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne and Bacon. The author shows how each of these thinkers sheds light on central questions of moral philosophy: is human sociability rooted in neediness or strength? is the best life chiefly solitary, or dedicated to a community with others? Clearly structured and engagingly written, this book will appeal to a broad swathe of readers across philosophy, classics and political science.