Philosophy of Aristotle
Title | Philosophy of Aristotle PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | Signet Book |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | |
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Includes selections from Metaphysics, Logic, Physics, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Poetics.
Evil in Aristotle
Title | Evil in Aristotle PDF eBook |
Author | Pavlos Kontos |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2018-02-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107161975 |
Provides the first full study of Aristotle's notion of evil and sheds light on its content, potential, and influence.
Aristotle on Religion
Title | Aristotle on Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Mor Segev |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2017-11-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108415253 |
Provides a comprehensive account of the socio-political role Aristotle attributes to traditional religion, despite rejecting its content.
Nicomachean Ethics
Title | Nicomachean Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | SDE Classics |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2019-11-05 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781951570279 |
Aristotle on Desire
Title | Aristotle on Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Giles Pearson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2012-08-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1139561014 |
Desire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself. This book reconstructs the account of desire latent in his various scattered remarks on the subject and analyses its role in his moral psychology. Topics include: the range of states that Aristotle counts as desires (orexeis); objects of desire (orekta) and the relation between desires and envisaging prospects; desire and the good; Aristotle's three species of desire: epithumia (pleasure-based desire), thumos (retaliatory desire) and boulêsis (good-based desire - in a narrower notion of 'good' than that which connects desire more generally to the good); Aristotle's division of desires into rational and non-rational; Aristotle and some current views on desire; and the role of desire in Aristotle's moral psychology. The book will be of relevance to anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics or psychology.
Aristotelian Philosophy
Title | Aristotelian Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Kelvin Knight |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2013-05-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 074563821X |
Aristotle is the most influential philosopher of practice, and Knight's new book explores the continuing importance of Aristotelian philosophy. First, it examines the theoretical bases of what Aristotle said about ethical, political and productive activity. It then traces ideas of practice through such figures as St Paul, Luther, Hegel, Heidegger and recent Aristotelian philosophers, and evaluates Alasdair MacIntyre's contribution. Knight argues that, whereas Aristotle's own thought legitimated oppression, MacIntyre's revision of Aristotelianism separates ethical excellence from social elitism and justifies resistance. With MacIntyre, Aristotelianism becomes revolutionary. MacIntyre's case for the Thomistic Aristotelian tradition originates in his attempt to elaborate a Marxist ethics informed by analytic philosophy. He analyses social practices in teleological terms, opposing them to capitalist institutions and arguing for the cooperative defence of our moral agency. In condensing these ideas, Knight advances a theoretical argument for the reformation of Aristotelianism and an ethical argument for social change.
Time for Aristotle
Title | Time for Aristotle PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula Coope |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2005-10-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191530123 |
What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.