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Ethics With Aristotle.
Title:
Ethics With Aristotle.
Author:
Broadie, Sarah.
ISBN:
9780198023050
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (477 pages)
Contents:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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