UID:
edocfu_9959695947802883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 474 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-98447-0
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1-139-98909-X
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1-139-02248-2
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to philosophy
Content:
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This Cambridge Companion includes twenty essays by leading scholars of Aristotle and ancient philosophy that cover the major issues of this text. The essays in this volume shed light on Aristotle's rigorous and challenging thinking on questions such as: can there be a practical science of ethics? What is happiness? Are we responsible for our character? How does moral virtue relate to good thinking? Can we act against our reasoned choice? What is friendship? Is the contemplative life the highest kind of life? Covering all sections of the Nicomachean Ethics and selected topics in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics and Protrepticus, this volume offers the reader a solid foundation in Aristotle's ethical philosophy.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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Ethics as Practical Science /
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Beginning and Ending with Eudaimonia /
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Happiness and the External Goods /
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Why Is Aristotle's Virtue of Character a Mean? Taking Aristotle at His Word (NE ii 6) /
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Choice and Moral Responsibility (NE iii 1-5) /
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Courage and Temperance /
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Social Virtues (NE iv) /
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Giving Justice Its Due /
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Book on Wisdom /
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Phronesis and the Virtues (NE vi 12-13) /
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Was Aristotle a Humean? A Partisan Guide to the Debate /
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Aristotle's Analysis of Akratic Action /
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Philosophical Virtue: In Defense of the Grand End /
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Nicomachean Ethics on Pleasure /
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Finding Oneself with Friends /
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Competing Ways of Life and Ring Composition (NE x 6-8) /
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Relationship between Aristotle's Ethical and Political Discourses (NE x 9) /
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Protreptic Aspects of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics /
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Eudemian Ethics and Its Controversial Relationship to the Nicomachean Ethics /
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Topical Bibliography to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-12273-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-19276-5
Language:
English
