Essays on Aristotle's Ethics / edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rorty, Amélie, editor.

Series:

Major thinkers series ; Volume 2.

Major Thinkers Series ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1980]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics deals with character and its proper development in the acquisition of thoughtful habits directed toward appropriate ends. The articles in this unique collection, many new or not readily available, form a continuos commentary on the Ethics. Philosophers and classicists alike will welcome them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Aristotle on Eudaimonia

2. Aristotle on Eudaimonia

3. The Metaphysical and Psychological Basis of Aristotle's Ethics

4. Self-Movers

5. Aristotle on Learning to Be Good

6. Aristotle on Action

7. Being Properly Affected: Virtues and Feelings in Aristotle's Ethics

8. Reason and Responsibility in Aristotle

9. Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean

10. Courage as a Mean

11. Justice as a Virtue

12. Aristotle on the Role of Intellect in Virtue

13. Deliberation and Practical Reason

14. Weakness of Will Commensurability, and the Objects of Deliberation and Desire

15. Akrasia and Pleasure: Nicomachean Ethics Book 7

16. Aristotle on Pleasure and Goodness

17. Aristotle on Friendship

18. The Good Man and the Good for Man in Aristotle's Ethics

19. The Role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Ethics

20. The Place of Contemplation in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

21. Shame, Separateness, and Political Unity: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520340985

0520340981

OCLC:

1153537400