Bwell Guide Aristotles Nicomacean

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2021-0
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 681 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraut, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).