Aristotle on the Uses of Contemplation

ISBN-13: 9781108421102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 270 str.

Matthew Walker

Opis

Provides an original, up-to-date, and systematic account of Aristotle's views on contemplation's place in the human good.

Recenzje

'Walker illuminates tricky and neglected texts such as the Protrepticus, and draws surprising parallels to various Platonic dialogs. These parts of the book are intrinsically interesting, yet as they forward the book's main argument, they are also useful. This book is clear and straightforward enough to be painlessly perusable, yet deep enough to repay long study. It is both a quick read (as scholarly commentaries go), and a must-read' Howard J. Curzer, Polis, The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought

Spis treści

1. How can useless contemplation be central to the human good?; 2. Useless contemplation as an ultimate end; 3. The threptic basis of living; 4. Authoritative functions, ultimate ends, and the good for living organisms; 5. The utility question restated – and how not to address it; 6. The first wave: reason, desire, and threptic guidance in the harmonized soul; 7. The second wave: complete virtue and the utility of contemplation; 8. The third wave: from contemplating the divine to understanding the human good; 9. The anatomy of Aristotelian virtue; 10. Some concluding reflections.