Claudia Baracchi

Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 731g
• ISBN-13: 9780521866583
• ISBN-10: 0521866588
• Artikelnr.: 26369865

Autorenporträt

Claudia Baracchi is a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy and the author of Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Prelude: Before Ethics: Metaphysics A and Posterior Analytics B
1. Metaphysics A: on 'metaphysics' and desire
2. Posterior analytics: on Nous and Aisthesis
3. Architecture as first philosophy
Part II. Main Section: Ethikon Nikomakheion Alpha-Eta: 4. Human initiative and its orientation to the good
5. On happiness
6. On the soul
7. On justice
8. The virtues of the intellect
Part III. Interlude: Metaphysics Gamma: 9. Aporiai of the science of 'being qua being'
10. The principle 'by nature'
11. Reiterations
12. Teleology, indefinable and indubitable
13. The phenomenon of truth and the action of thinking
Part IV. Concluding Section: Ethikon Nikomakheion Theta-Kappa
14. Friendship and justice: inceptive remarks
15. Perfection and friendship
16. Again on friendship and justice
17. On happiness or the good
18. Again on Logos and Praxis
Part V. Kolophon.