Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy
Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy
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In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. Referring to a broad range of texts from the Aristotelian corpus, Baracchi shows how the theoretical is always informed by a set of practices, and specifically, how one's encounter with phenomena, the world, or nature in the broadest sense, is always a matter of ethos. Such a 'modern' intimation can, thus, be found at the heart of Greek thought. Baracchi's book opens the way for a comprehensively reconfigured approach to classical Greek philosophy.
- A sustained exercise in close reading
- An attempt to re-systematize Aristotle's corpus as a whole
- Accessible to students of Greek philosophy
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January 2008Adobe eBook Reader
9780511363931
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Prelude: Before Ethics: Metaphysics A and Posterior Analytics B
- 1. Metaphysics A: on 'metaphysics' and desire
- 2. Posterior analytics: on Nous and Aisthesis
- 3. Architecture as first philosophy
- Part II. Main Section: Ethikon Nikomakheion Alpha-Eta:
- 4. Human initiative and its orientation to the good
- 5. On happiness
- 6. On the soul
- 7. On justice
- 8. The virtues of the intellect
- Part III. Interlude: Metaphysics Gamma:
- 9. Aporiai of the science of 'being qua being'
- 10. The principle 'by nature'
- 11. Reiterations
- 12. Teleology, indefinable and indubitable
- 13. The phenomenon of truth and the action of thinking
- Part IV. Concluding Section: Ethikon Nikomakheion Theta-Kappa
- 14. Friendship and justice: inceptive remarks
- 15. Perfection and friendship
- 16. Again on friendship and justice
- 17. On happiness or the good
- 18. Again on Logos and Praxis
- Part V. Kolophon.
