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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...

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Autor principal: Richardson Lear, Gabriel, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University, 2004.
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