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Author Richardson Lear, Gabriel, 1971-

Title Happy lives and the highest good : an essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics / Gabriel Richardson Lear.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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Subject Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.
Aristotle.
Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
Ethics, Ancient.
Ethics, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
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)
140082608X (electronic book)
9780691114668 (alkaline paper)
0691114668 (alkaline paper)
0691114668 (alkaline paper)