Aristotle and beyond : essays on metaphysics and ethics / Sarah Broadie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broadie, Sarah.

Contributor:

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

x, 203 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Written over a period of thirty-five years, these essays explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human soul, the idea of the highest good, and the human significance of leisure. While most of the essays take as their starting-point some theme in ancient Greek philosophy, they are meant not as exegesis but as distinctive and independent contributions to live philosophizing. Written with clarity, precision without technicality, and philosophical imagination, they will engage a wide range of readers, including scholars and students of ancient Greek philosophy and others working on more contemporary analytical concerns.

Contents:

Affecting and being affected

Backwards causation and continuing

From necessity to fate : an inevitable step

Alternative world-histories

A contemporary look at Aristotle's changing now

Nature and craft in Aristotelian teleology

Soul and body in Plato and Descartes

Aristotle and contemporary ethics

On the idea of the summum bonum

What should we mean by 'the highest good'?

The good of practical beings : Aristotelian perspectives

Taking stock of leisure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9780521870245

0521870240

OCLC:

123767056

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