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1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and indexes. |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.
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Aristotle. |
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Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle) |
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Ethics, Ancient.
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Ethics, Ancient. |
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Richardson Lear, Gabriel, 1971- Happy lives and the highest good. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University, ©2004 0691114668 9780691114668 (DLC) 2003042899 (OCoLC)51886355 |
ISBN |
9781400826087 (electronic book) |
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140082608X (electronic book) |
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9780691114668 (alkaline paper) |
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0691114668 (alkaline paper) |
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0691114668 (alkaline paper) |
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