Kraut The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5314-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethicsilluminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics andstudents new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays bydistinguished international scholars.
* * The structure of the book mirrors the organization of theNichomachean Ethics itself.
* Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, thedistinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness,self-control, and pleasure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraut, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgment.
Abbreviations.
Introduction (Richard Kraut).
1. Aristotle's Ethical Treatises (Chris Bobonich).
2. Human Good and Human Function (Gavin Lawrence).
3. How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method(Richard Kraut).
4. The Central Doctrine of the Mean (Rosalind Hursthouse).
5. Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine (Gabriel RichardsonLear).
6. Aristotle on the Voluntary (Susan Sauve Meyer).
7. Aristotle on Greatness of Soul (Roger Crisp).
8. Aristotle's Justice (Charles Young).
9. Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought (C.D.C. Reeve).
10. The Practical Syllogism (Paula Gottlieb).
11. Acrasia and Self-Control (A.W. Price).
12. Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics (DorotheaFrede).
13. The Nicomachean Account of Philia (Jennifer Whiting).
14. Aristotle's Political Ethics (Malcolm Schofield).
15. Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaemonism (T. H.Irwin).
16. Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics (Sarah Broadie).
Index of Passages from Aristotle.
General Index.

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).