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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Richardson Lear, Gabriel, 1971-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.