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Author : Pavlos Kontos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107161979
Provides the first full study of Aristotle's notion of evil and sheds light on its content, potential, and influence.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.
Author : Pavlos Kontos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000399097
This book offers a new account of Aristotle’s practical philosophy. Pavlos Kontos argues that Aristotle does not restrict practical reason to its action-guiding and motivational role; rather, practical reason remains practical in the full sense of the term even when its exercise does not immediately concern the guidance of our present actions. To elucidate why this wider scope of practical reason is important, Kontos brings into the foreground five protagonists that have long been overlooked: (a) spectators or judges who make non-motivational judgments about practical matters that do not interact with their present deliberations and actions; (b) legislators who exercise practical reason to establish constitutions and laws; (c) hopes as an active engagement with moral luck and its impact on our individual lives; (d) prayers as legislators’ way to deal with the moral luck hovering around the birth of constitutions and the prospect of a utopia; and (e) people who are outsiders or marginal cases of the responsibility community because they are totally deprived of practical reason. Building on a wide range of interpretations of Aristotle’s practical philosophy (from the ancient commentators to contemporary analytic and continental philosophers), Kontos offers new insights about Aristotle’s philosophical contribution to the current debates about radical evil, moral luck, hope, utopia, internalism and externalism, and the philosophy of law. Aristotle on the Scope of Practical Reason will appeal to researchers and advanced students interested in Aristotle’s ethics, ancient philosophy, and the history of practical philosophy.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153978438X
The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author's whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. The title is often assumed to refer to his son Nicomachus, to whom the work was dedicated or who may have edited it (although his young age makes this less likely). Alternatively, the work may have been dedicated to his father, who was also called Nicomachus. The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, of how men should best live. In his Metaphysics, Aristotle described how Socrates, the friend and teacher of Plato, had turned philosophy to human questions, whereas Pre-Socratic philosophy had only been theoretical. Ethics, as now separated out for discussion by Aristotle, is practical rather than theoretical, in the original Aristotelian senses of these terms. In other words, it is not only a contemplation about good living, because it also aims to create good living. It is therefore connected to Aristotle's other practical work, the Politics, which similarly aims at people becoming good. Ethics is about how individuals should best live, while the study of politics is from the perspective of a law-giver, looking at the good of a whole community.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1981-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141913261
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how they may be maintained. Aristotle's opinions form an essential background to the thinking of philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli and Jean Bodin and both his premises and arguments raise questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world.
Author : Carlos Steel,Jan Opsomer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472501035
Proclus' On the Existence of Evils is not a commentary, but helps to compensate for the dearth of Neoplatonist ethical commentaries. The central question addressed in the work is: how can there be evil in a providential world? Neoplatonists agree that it cannot be caused by higher and worthier beings. Plotinus had said that evil is matter, which, unlike Aristotle, he collapsed into mere privation or lack, thus reducing its reality. He also protected higher causes from responsibility by saying that evil may result from a combination of goods. Proclus objects: evil is real, and not a privation. Rather, it is a parasite feeding off good. Parasites have no proper cause, and higher beings are thus vindicated as being the causes only of the good off which evil feeds.
Author : Robert C. Bartlett,Susan D. Collins
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791495872
This wide-ranging collection of essays by European and American scholars presents some of the most interesting and important work now being done on the political philosophy of Aristotle. Part One investigates what is arguably the most urgent and controversial question of concern to students of Aristotle today, namely, the possibility of grounding moral and political action in some version of Aristotelian rationalism. Part Two considers a series of specific questions arising from the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics, among which are Aristotle's understanding of moral virtue; the problem of evil; justice and the very idea of "common good"; friendship; the status of the philosophic life vis-à-vis the political; and the outlines of the best possible political community. [Contributors include Wayne Ambler, Robert C. Bartlett, Ronald Beiner, Richard Bodéüs, David Bolotin, Hauke Brunkhorst, Eric Buzzetti, Susan D. Collins, Kent Enns, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Louis Hunt, Joseph Knippenberg, David K. O'Connor, Lorraine Smith Pangle, Judith A. Swanson, Aristide Tessitore, Franco Volpi, and Bernard Yack.]
Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : St. Augustine's Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015051885542
The fine editions of the Aristotelian Commentary Series make available long out-of-print commentaries of St. Thomas on Aristotle. Each volume has the full text of Aristotle with Bekker numbers, followed by the commentary of St. Thomas, cross-referenced using an easily accessible mode of referring to Aristotle in the Commentary. Each volume is beautifully printed and bound using the finest materials. All copies are printed on acid-free paper and Smyth sewn. They will last.
Author : Edward Cook
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1565180704
Author : Proclus,Jan Opsomer,Carlos G. Steel
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015057022876
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Author : Claudia Baracchi
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441148544
Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a wide range of contemporary philosophical discussions. The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle brings together leading scholars from across the world and from a variety of philosophical traditions to survey the recent research on Aristotle's thought and its contributions to the full spectrum of philosophical enquiry, from logic to the natural sciences and psychology, from metaphysics to ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Further essays address aspects of the transmission, preservation, and elaboration of Aristotle's thought in subsequent phases of the history of philosophy (from the Judeo-Arabic reception to debates in Europe and North America), and look forward to potential future directions for the study of his thought. In addition, The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle includes an extensive range of essential reference tools offering assistance to researchers working in the field, including a chronology of recent research, a glossary of key Aristotelian terms with Latin concordances and textual references, and a guide to further reading.
Author : Shams C. Inati
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1586840061
The first comprehensive study of Ibn Sînâ’s Theodicy.
Author : Pavlos Kontos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136649882
This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and evil—that is, before any reference to specific ethical outlooks—one should explain the very materiality of what necessarily constitutes the ‘moral world’. These claims are substantiated by means of a text- centered interpretation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in dialogue with contemporary moral realism. The book concludes with a critique of Heidegger’s, Gadamer’s and Arendt’s approaches to Aristotle’s ethics.
Author : Matthew D. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108421102
Provides an original, up-to-date, and systematic account of Aristotle's views on contemplation's place in the human good.
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521476763
Sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' 'Neoplatonism'.