The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kraut, Richard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars.

• The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself.
• Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, the distinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness, self-control, and pleasure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405153140
• Artikelnr.: 38442210

Autorenporträt

Richard Kraut is Professor of Philosophy and Classics, and the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities, at Northwestern University. He is the author of Socrates and the State (1984), Aristotle on the Human Good (1989), and Aristotle: Political Philosophy (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgment ix
Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
Richard Kraut
1 Aristotle's Ethical Treatises 12
Chris Bobonich
2 Human Good and Human Function 37
Gavin Lawrence
3 How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method 76
Richard Kraut
4 The Central Doctrine of the Mean 96
Rosalind Hursthouse
5 Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine 116
Gabriel Richardson Lear
6 Aristotle on the Voluntary 137
Susan Sauvé Meyer
7 Aristotle on Greatness of Soul 158
Roger Crisp
8 Aristotle's Justice 179
Charles M. Young
9 Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought 198
C. D. C. Reeve
10 The Practical Syllogism 218
Paula Gottlieb
11 Acrasia and Self-control 234
A. W. Price
12 Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics 255
Dorothea Frede
13 The Nicomachean Account of Philia 276
Jennifer Whiting
14 Aristotle's Political Ethics 305
Malcolm Schofield
15 Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaimonism 323
T. H. Irwin
16 Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics 342
Sarah Broadie
Index of Passages from Aristotle 362
General Index 377

Rezensionen

"Searching for light on Aristotle's ethics? Look nofurther than this fine collection of new essays on the major topicsof the Nicomachean Ethics from leading scholars of fivecountries." David Keyt, University of Washington

"This is a stimulating and wide-ranging collection oflucid and rigorous essays by some of the world's finestAristotelian scholars. It offers fresh insights intoAristotle's arguments, methodology, influence, andcontemporary relevance and will appeal both to first-time readersand those returning to the work." Angela Hobbs, Universityof Warwick

"A welcome addition for anyone interested inAristotle's ethics. Its authors form an impressive list ofscholars, and it covers a wide range of topics relevant toAristotle's ethics. Worth owning." Norman Dahl, Universityof Minnesota