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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Auteur principal: Richardson Lear, Gabriel, 1971-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Aristotle. > Nicomachean ethics.
Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
Ethics, Ancient.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Morale ancienne.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9781400826087

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