Aristotle on Human Nature

The Animal with Logos
Herausgeber: Kirk, Gregory; Arel, Joseph

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring Aristotle's concept of logos, this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing that it is the organizing principle of human life itself. Tracing its multiple meanings in different contexts, including reason, logic, speech, ratio, account, and form, contributors highlight the ways in which we can see logos in human thinking, in the organizing principles of our bodies, in our perception of the world, in our social and political life, and through our productive and fine arts. Through this focus, logos reveals itself not as one feature amongst others, but instead as the feature that organizes all others, from the most "animal" to the most "spiritual." By presenting logos in this way, readers gain a complex account of the philosophy of human nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350348356
• ISBN-10: 135034835X
• Artikelnr.: 69823290

Autorenporträt

Gregory Kirk is Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Northern Arizona University, USA. Joseph Arel teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Southern Maine, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I.
The Logos of Logos 1. Language, Logic and Metaphysics: The Being with
Logos and the Logos of Being John Russon and Ömer Aygün Part II. The Logos
of Phusis 2. "For there are gods here too": EmbodiedEssence,
Two-Footedness, and the Animal with Logos Eli Diamond 3. The Significance
of Self-Nourishment: Aristotle's De Anima II.4 Greg Recco 4. Flesh as
Logos Rebecca Steiner Goldner 5. Perception, Thought, and Error in
Aristotle's De Anima Whitney Howell 6. "Actuality in the First Sense" and
the Question of Human Nature in Aristotle John Russon Part III. The Logos
of Ethos 7. Wishful Thinking in Aristotle Ömer Aygün 8. The Dissociative
Power of Logos in Taking Account of Oneself Gregory Kirk 9. Aristotle on
the Rationality of Virtue Eve Rabinoff 10. Learning how to be at Leisure
through Musical Education Jacob Singer Part IV. The Logos of the Polis 11.
The Vicissitudes of Logos: On Nature, Character and Time-of-Life Robert
Metcalf 12. Practical Logos in Aristotle's Ethics, Rhetoric and Politics
Fred Guerin 13. The Movement of Political Animals Joseph Arel 14.
Aristotle: The Politics of Life and the Life of Politics Walter Brogan 15.
Logos and the Polis in the Poetics Patricia Fagan Bibliography Index