Sarah Broadie

Aristotle and Beyond

Essays on Metaphysics and Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These essays will interest readers working on both Ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary analytical concerns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781107405851
• ISBN-10: 1107405858
• Artikelnr.: 35894243

Inhaltsangabe

1. Affecting and being affected
2. Backwards causation and continuing
3. From necessity to fate: an inevitable step?
4. Alternative world-histories
5. A contemporary look at Aristotle's changing Now
6. Nature and craft in Aristotelian teleology
7. Soul and body in Plato and Descartes
8. Aristotle and contemporary ethics
9. The idea of the summum bonum
10. What should we mean by 'the highest good'?
11. The good of practical beings: Aristotelian perspectives
12. Taking stock of leisure.