Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom

✍ Scribed by Bryan C. Reece

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 173
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Aristotle thinks that happiness is an activity – it consists in doing something – rather than a feeling. It is the best activity of which humans are capable and is spread out over the course of a life. But what kind of activity is it? Some of his remarks indicate that it is a single best kind of activity, intellectual contemplation. Other evidence suggests that it is an overarching activity that has various virtuous activities, ethical and intellectual, as parts. Numerous interpreters have sharply disagreed about Aristotle's answers to such questions. In this book, Bryan Reece offers a fundamentally new approach to determining what kind of activity Aristotle thinks happiness is, one that challenges widespread assumptions that have until now prevented a dialectically satisfactory interpretation. His approach displays the boldness and systematicity of Aristotle's practical philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

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01.0_pp_i_iv_Frontmatter
02.0_pp_v_vi_Dedication
03.0_pp_vii_viii_Contents
04.0_pp_ix_xiii_Preface
05.0_pp_xiv_xiv_Abbreviations
06.0_pp_1_30_From_the_Dilemmatic_Problem_to_the_Conjunctive_Problem_of_Happiness
07.0_pp_31_61_Theoretical_and_Practical_Wisdom
08.0_pp_62_79_Are_There_Two_Kinds_of_Happiness
09.0_pp_80_108_Is_Contemplation_Proper_to_Humans
10.0_pp_109_134_Solving_the_Conjunctive_Problem_of_Happiness
11.0_pp_135_146_Bibliography
12.0_pp_147_147_Glossary
13.0_pp_148_153_Index_of_Passages
14.0_pp_154_156_Index_of_Authors
15.0_pp_157_158_Index_of_Terms

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