Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy
Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy
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
Product details
April 2011Paperback
9781107400511
354 pages
226 × 150 × 23 mm
0.52kg
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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.
