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Happy lives and the highest good : an essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics /
Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues--courage and generosity, for example--that are not in any obvious way either manifestations of philosophical contemplation or subordinated to it. They argue that Aristotle was inconsistent, and that we should not try to rea. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826087 140082608X 9780691114668 0691114668 |