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Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle´s Nicomachean Ethics
Gabriel Richardson Lear
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Paperback. Presents an approach to a debate about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. This book argues that in Aristotle's view, we may act for the sake of an end not just by instrumentally bringing it but also by approximating it. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues--courage and generosity, for example--that are not in any obvious way either manifestations of philosophical contemplation or subordinated to it. They argue that Aristotle was inconsistent, and that we should not try to read the entire Ethics as an attempt to flesh out ... Read more
Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues--courage and generosity, for example--that are not in any obvious way either manifestations of philosophical contemplation or subordinated to it. They argue that Aristotle was inconsistent, and that we should not try to read the entire Ethics as an attempt to flesh out ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691126265
SKU
V9780691126265
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About Gabriel Richardson Lear
Gabriel Richardson Lear is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle´s Nicomachean Ethics
"This is an interesting, novel, and well-informed reading of Aristotle's ethics."
Choice "A fine book. Anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics should read it."
Norman O. Dahl, Philosophy in Review "The book is rewarding for its close study of several of Aristotle's most vexed passages in an accessible and imaginative way; particularly worthwhile are the discussions of self-sufficiency, ... the kalon, and 'greatness ... Read more
Choice "A fine book. Anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics should read it."
Norman O. Dahl, Philosophy in Review "The book is rewarding for its close study of several of Aristotle's most vexed passages in an accessible and imaginative way; particularly worthwhile are the discussions of self-sufficiency, ... the kalon, and 'greatness ... Read more