Aristotle's ethics as first philosophy / Claudia Baracchi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baracchi, Claudia, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Ethics.

First philosophy.

Physical Description:

ix, 342 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction 1

1 On Ethics as First Philosophy 1

2 On Interpreting Aristotle: Episteme as First Philosophy? 3

1 Prelude: Before Ethics. Metaphysics A and Posterior Analytics B. 19 16

1 Metaphysics A: On "Metaphysics" and Desire 17

2 Posterior Analytics: On Nous and Aisthesis 28

3 Architecture as First Philosophy 38

2 Main Section. Ethikon Nikomakheion Alpha to Eta 53

1 Human Initiative and Its Orientation to the Good 55

2 On Happiness 79

3 On the Soul 109

4 On Justice 143

5 The Virtues of the Intellect 170

3 Interlude. Metaphysics Gamma 220

1 Aporiai of the Science of "Being qua Being" 222

2 The Principle "By Nature" 225

3 Reiterations 245

4 Teleology, Indefinable and Indubitable 251

5 The Phenomenon of Truth and the Action of Thinking 255

4 Concluding Section. Ethikon Nikomakheion Theta to Kappa 260

1 Friendship and Justice: Inceptive Remarks 261

2 Perfection of Friendship 267

3 Again on Friendship and Justice 282

4 On Happiness or the Good 295

5 Again on Logos and Praxis 305

5 Kolophon 308.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521866583

0521866588

OCLC:

122973879

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