Aristotle the Desire to Understand Jonathan Lear

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lear, Jonathan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1988

Summary:

Professor Lear introduces Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts

Professor Lear introduces Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts - selected from the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics and from the biological and logical works. This 1988 book is written in a direct, lucid style which engages the reader with the themes in an active, participatory manner. This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animated by this desire in this world? What is it for a creature to have a nature; what is our human nature; what must the world be like to be intelligible; and what must we be like to understand it systematically? Through a consideration of these questions Professor Lear introduces us to the essence of Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts - selected from the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics and from the biological and logical works. The book is written in a direct, lucid style which engages the reader with the themes in an active, participatory manner

Contents:

Preface; 1. The desire to understand; 2. Nature; 3. Change; 4. Man's nature; 5. Ethics and the organization of desire; 6. Understanding the broad structure of reality; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511570612

0511570619

9780521345231

0521345235

9781107398481

1107398487

9781461949077

1461949076

9781139886246

113988624X

OCLC:

776975278

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Restricted for use by site license