Happy Lives and the Highest Good : : An Essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics / / Gabriel Richardson Lear.
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 oppos...
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Lear, Gabriel Richardson, author. Happy Lives and the Highest Good : An Essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics / Gabriel Richardson Lear. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2004 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. The Finality Criterion -- Chapter Three. The Self-Sufficiency Of Happiness -- Chapter Four. Acting For The Sake Of An Object Of Love -- Chapter Five. Theoretical And Practical Reason -- Chapter Six. Moral Virtue And To Kalon -- Chapter Seven. Courage, Temperance, And Greatness Of Soul -- Chapter Eight. Two Happy Lives And Their Most Final Ends -- Appendix. Acting For Love In The Symposium -- Works Cited -- Index Locorum -- General Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 the notion that the best life aims at the "monistic good" of contemplation. In defending the unity and coherence of the Ethics, Lear argues that, in Aristotle's view, we may act for the sake of an end not just by instrumentally bringing it about but also by approximating it. She then argues that, for Aristotle, the excellent rational activity of moral virtue is an approximation of theoretical contemplation. Thus, the happiest person chooses moral virtue as an approximation of contemplation in practical life. Richardson Lear bolsters this interpretation by examining three moral virtues--courage, temperance, and greatness of soul--and the way they are fine. Elegantly written and rigorously argued, this is a major contribution to our understanding of a central issue in Aristotle's moral philosophy. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) PHILOSOPHY / Criticism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691114668 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400826087 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400826087.jpg |
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