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A Person as a Lifetime: An Aristotelian Account of Persons
Stephanie M. Semler
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Is it possible to derive a viable definition of persons from Aristotle's work? In A Person as a Lifetime: An Aristotelian Account of Persons, Stephanie M. Semler argues that we can. She finds the component parts of this definition in his writing on ethics and metaphysics, and the structure of this working definition is that of an entire lifetime. If J.O. Urmson is right that [t]o call somebody a eudaimon is to judge his life as a whole, then a Greek, and by extension an Aristotelian account of personhood would be a description of an entire human ... Read more
Is it possible to derive a viable definition of persons from Aristotle's work? In A Person as a Lifetime: An Aristotelian Account of Persons, Stephanie M. Semler argues that we can. She finds the component parts of this definition in his writing on ethics and metaphysics, and the structure of this working definition is that of an entire lifetime. If J.O. Urmson is right that [t]o call somebody a eudaimon is to judge his life as a whole, then a Greek, and by extension an Aristotelian account of personhood would be a description of an entire human ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739198452
SKU
V9780739198452
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About Stephanie M. Semler
Stephanie Semler is associate professor of philosophy at Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun.
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