Author: James Edward John Altham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479301
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.
World, Mind, and Ethics
Author: James Edward John Altham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479301
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479301
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A distinguished international team of philosophers offer responses to the work of Bernard Williams, followed by the author's reply.
Aristotle's Ethics
Author: Hope May
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441182748
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is devoted to the topic of human happiness. Yet, although Aristotle's conception of happiness is central to his whole philosophical project, there is much controversy surrounding it. Hope May offers a new interpretation of Aristotle's account of happiness - one which incorporates Aristotle's views about the biological development of human beings. May argues that the relationship amongst the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and happiness, is best understood through the lens of developmentalism. On this view, happiness emerges from the cultivation of a number of virtues that are developmentally related. May goes on to show how contemporary scholarship in psychology, ethical theory and legal philosophy signals a return to Aristotelian ethics. Specifically, May shows how a theory of motivation known as Self-Determination Theory and recent research on goal attainment have deep affinities to Aristotle's ethical theory. May argues that this recent work can ground a contemporary virtue theory that acknowledges the centrality of autonomy in a way that captures the fundamental tenets of Aristotle's ethics.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441182748
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is devoted to the topic of human happiness. Yet, although Aristotle's conception of happiness is central to his whole philosophical project, there is much controversy surrounding it. Hope May offers a new interpretation of Aristotle's account of happiness - one which incorporates Aristotle's views about the biological development of human beings. May argues that the relationship amongst the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and happiness, is best understood through the lens of developmentalism. On this view, happiness emerges from the cultivation of a number of virtues that are developmentally related. May goes on to show how contemporary scholarship in psychology, ethical theory and legal philosophy signals a return to Aristotelian ethics. Specifically, May shows how a theory of motivation known as Self-Determination Theory and recent research on goal attainment have deep affinities to Aristotle's ethical theory. May argues that this recent work can ground a contemporary virtue theory that acknowledges the centrality of autonomy in a way that captures the fundamental tenets of Aristotle's ethics.
Theories of Human Nature
Author: Joel J. Kupperman
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603844546
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Questions for Further Consideration and Recommended Further Reading, which follow each relevant chapter, encourage readers to think further and to craft their own perspectives.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603844546
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Questions for Further Consideration and Recommended Further Reading, which follow each relevant chapter, encourage readers to think further and to craft their own perspectives.
Aristotle's Anthropology
Author: Geert Keil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107192692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The first collection of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107192692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The first collection of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.
On Human Nature
Author: Thomas Aquinas
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872204546
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Indeholder Thomas Aquinas kommentarer til Aristoteles: De anima og hans egen Summa theologica
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872204546
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Indeholder Thomas Aquinas kommentarer til Aristoteles: De anima og hans egen Summa theologica
Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: SDE Classics
ISBN: 9781951570279
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: SDE Classics
ISBN: 9781951570279
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Evil in Aristotle
Author: Pavlos Kontos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107161975
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Provides the first full study of Aristotle's notion of evil and sheds light on its content, potential, and influence.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107161975
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Provides the first full study of Aristotle's notion of evil and sheds light on its content, potential, and influence.
Aristotle on the Nature of Truth
Author: Christopher P. Long
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139492098
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavours to do justice to the nature of things. By following a path of Aristotle's thinking that leads from our rudimentary encounters with things in perceiving through human communication to thinking, this book traces an itinerary that uncovers the nature of truth as ecological justice, and it finds the nature of justice in our attempts to articulate the truth of things.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139492098
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavours to do justice to the nature of things. By following a path of Aristotle's thinking that leads from our rudimentary encounters with things in perceiving through human communication to thinking, this book traces an itinerary that uncovers the nature of truth as ecological justice, and it finds the nature of justice in our attempts to articulate the truth of things.
Confucius: A Guide for the Perplexed
Author: Yong Huang
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441196536
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A clear and thorough account of Confucius and his ideas, underscoring his relevance to both Chinese people and to people in the West.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441196536
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A clear and thorough account of Confucius and his ideas, underscoring his relevance to both Chinese people and to people in the West.
The Politics
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141913266
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how they may be maintained. Aristotle's opinions form an essential background to the thinking of philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli and Jean Bodin and both his premises and arguments raise questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141913266
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how they may be maintained. Aristotle's opinions form an essential background to the thinking of philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli and Jean Bodin and both his premises and arguments raise questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world.