Happy Lives and the Highest Good : An Essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richardson Lear, Gabriel, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aristotle. > Nicomachean ethics.
Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
Ethics, Ancient.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Morale ancienne.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The finality criterion
  • The self-sufficiency of happiness
  • Acting for the sake of an object of love
  • Theoretical and practical reason
  • Moral virtue and to Kalon
  • Courage, temperance, and greatness of soul
  • Two happy lives and their most final ends
  • Acting for love in the symposium.

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