Aristotle's man : speculations upon Aristotelian anthropology / Stephen R.L. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Stephen R. L., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Philosophical anthropology--History.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages)

Other Title:

Speculations upon Aristotelian anthropology

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Words have determinable sense only within a complex of unstated assumptions, and all interpretation must therefore go beyond the given material. This book addresses what is man's place in the Aristotelian world. It also describes man's abilities and prospects in managing his life, and considers how far Aristotle's treatment of time and history licenses the sort of dynamic interpretation of his doctrines that have been given. The ontological model that explains much of Aristotle's conclusions and methods is one of life-worlds, in which the material universe of scientific myth is no more than an abstraction from lived reality, not its transcendent ground."-- Title details screen.

Contents:

1. Introduction: methods and interpretation

2/1. The Ergon argument

2/2. The biological continuum

2/3. Wholes and ends

3/1. Perception

3/2. The doctrine of the man

3/3. Policy and polity

4/1. Time

4/2. History

5/1. Eudaimonia

5/2. Death

5/3. Nous

6. Body-mind

Appendices:

A. Pneuma

B. The sexes

C. Aristotle and the Sung Neo-Confucians

D. Ta Noeta and the unmoved movers.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-168084-2

0-19-824516-5