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Aristotle and beyond : essays on metaphysics and ethics /
Written over a period of thirty-five years, these essays, first published in 2007, explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human soul, the idea of the highest good and the human significance of leisure. While most of the essays take a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Affecting and being affected
- Backwards causation and continuing
- From necessity to fate : an inevitable step
- Alternative world-histories
- A contemporary look at Aristotle's changing now
- Nature and craft in Aristotelian teleology
- Soul and body in Plato and Descartes
- Aristotle and contemporary ethics
- On the idea of the summum bonum
- What should we mean by 'the highest good'?
- The good of practical beings : Aristotelian perspectives
- Taking stock of leisure.