Author: James G. LennoxPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521768849
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle
Author: James G. LennoxPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521768849
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle
Author: James G. LennoxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139493213
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Aristotle on Nature and Living Things
Author: David M. BalmePublisher: Mathesis Publications
ISBN: 9780935225013
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Aristotle on the Nature of Community
Author: Adriel M. TrottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107036259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Adriel M. Trott reads Aristotle's Politics through the internal cause definition of nature to develop an active and inclusive account of politics.
Aristotle and the Science of Nature
Author: Andrea FalconPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521854399
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Exploration of Aristotle's philosophy of nature in the light of scholarly insights.
Aristotle's Ethics
Author: Hope MayPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441182748
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
World, Mind, and Ethics
Author: James Edward John AlthamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479301
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.
Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics
Author: Chelsea C. HarryPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319178342
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
This book is a contribution both to Aristotle studies and to the philosophy of nature, and not only offers a thorough text based account of time as modally potentiality in Aristotle’s account, but also clarifies the process of “actualizing time” as taking time and looks at the implications of conceiving a world without actual time. It speaks to the resurgence of interest in Aristotle’s natural philosophy and will become an important resource for anyone interested in Aristotle’s theory of time, of its relationship to Aristotle’s larger project in the Physics, and to time’s place in the broader scope of Aristotelian natural science. Graduate students and scholars researching in this area especially will find the authors arguments provocative, a welcome addition to other recent publications on Aristotle’s Treatise on Time.
Time for Aristotle
Author: Ursula CoopePublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191530123
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.
Nicomachean Ethics
Author: AristotlePublisher: SDE Classics
ISBN: 9781951570279
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description