Ethics with Aristotle [[electronic resource] /] / Sarah Broadie

• Autore: Broadie Sarah
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, c1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (477 p.)
• Disciplina: 171/.3
• Soggetto topico: Ethics, Ancient
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Happiness, the Supreme End""; ""I. Presuppositions of the Question""; ""II. The Statesman's Objective""; ""III. Method and Starting Points""; ""IV. What is Happiness?""; ""V. Happiness Defined""; ""VI. Taking Stock of the Definition""; ""VII. On the Other Goods and the Scope of 'Happiness'""; ""Chapter 2. Virtues and Parts of the Soul""; ""I. Why an Ethics of Virtue?""; ""II. Division of the Soul (I)""; ""III. Division of the Soul (II)""; ""IV. Preliminaries on the Development of Virtue""; ""V. Virtue of Character and the Orthos Logos"" ; ""VI. 'A Prohairetic State'""""VII. Conditions of Virtuous Action""; ""VIII. 'With Pleasure' and 'for the Sake of the Noble'""; ""IX. The Status of the Mean""; ""X. How We Learn to Be Good""; ""XI. A Basis for Justice""; ""Chapter 3. The Voluntary""; ""I. General Perspectives""; ""II. Strains in'the Voluntary'""; ""III. Excuses and Nonexcuses""; ""IV. 'It Depends on Him'""; ""V. Character as Voluntary (I)""; ""VI. Character as Voluntary (II)""; ""Chapter 4. Practical Wisdom""; ""I. The Structure of Rational Choice""; ""II. The Purpose of NE Book VI""; ""III. Probing the Craft Analogy"" ; ""IV. Against the 'Grand End' View""""V. Practice and Production""; ""VI. Thought and Desire in Rational Choice""; ""VII. 'Practical Truth'""; ""VIII. The Works of Reason""; ""IX. End and Means in Deliberation""; ""X. Character and Intelligence in Deliberation (I)""; ""XI. Character and Intelligence in Deliberation (II)""; ""Chapter 5. Incontinence""; ""I. The Field of Incontinence""; ""II. How Incontinence Is Possible (I)""; ""III. How Incontinence Is Possible (II)""; ""IV. Incontinent Ignorance""; ""V. Essential Features and Contingent Manifestations""; ""VI. Aristotle's Analysis"" ; ""Chapter 6. Pleasure""""I. Why the Investigation of Pleasure?""; ""II. Pleasure and Natural Inclination""; ""III. The Challenge of Neutralism""; ""IV. Pleasure as Value-Judgment""; ""V. Against the Process Theory""; ""VI. Nature, Pleasure and Reason""; ""VII. The Limits of Hedonism""; ""Chapter 7. Aristotle's Values""; ""I. New Directions from Old""; ""II. The Problem""; ""III. Goods and Ends in the Eudemian Ethics""; ""IV. Theoria in the Eudemian Ethics""; ""V. A Sketch of the Nicomachean Position""; ""VI. The Need to Justify Theoria""; ""VII. Divine Activity versus Human Happiness"" ; ""VIII. Living like the Gods""""IX. The Crown of Happiness""; ""X. Leisure, Pleasure and Serious Activities""; ""XI. The Best Life""; ""Works Cited""; ""Texts of Aristotle""; ""Other Works""; ""Name Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Subject Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Index Locorum Aristotelis""
• Sommario/riassunto: Giving an analysis of the main themes of Aristotle's ethics, the author concentrates on his discussions of happiness, virtue voluntary agency, practical reason, incontinence, pleasure, and the place of theory in the best life.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethics with Aristotle
• ISBN: 0-19-983310-9; 9786610442140; 1-280-44214-X; 0-19-802305-7; 0-585-35488-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807318703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II