Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 240
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-7939-3 • Hardback • March 1995 • $138.00 • (£106.00)
May Sim is associate professor of philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part I
Chapter 3 The Substance of Aristotle's Ethics
Chapter 4 Human Being, Beast and God: The Place of Human Happiness According to Aristotle and Some Twentieth-Century Philosophers
Chapter 5 Sense of Being in Aristotle's Ethics
Chapter 6 Aristotle's "Exclusive" Account of Happiness: Contemplative Wisdom as a Guise of the Political Philosopher
Chapter 7 Two Perspectives on the Ultimate End
Part 8 Part II
Chapter 9 Plato's Ghost: Consequences of Aristotelian Dialectic
Chapter 10 Working Through Puzzles
Chapter 11 Theories of Meaning and Ontology in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Chapter 12 Part III
Chapter 13 The Ultimate End of Action: A Critique of Richard Kraut's Aristotle on the Human Good
Chapter 14 Reply to Roche
Part 15 Part IV
Chapter 16 The Philosophic Background of Aristotle's Aitia
Chapter 17 Composition and Unity: An Examination of Metaphysics H6
Chapter 18 Understanding Process: Reflections on Physics III.1
Chapter 19 Why the Elements Imitate the Heavens: Metaphysics IX, 8, 1050b28-34
It is unparalleled as an aid to our understanding the relationship between Aristotle's Metaphysics and his Ethics, and thus Aristotle's philosophy in general. The essays are excellent, many by distinguished authors, and they connect with each other not just thematically.
— Panayot Butchvarov, University of Iowa
A helpful and valuable collection of articles on Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics.
— Reginald Allen, Northwestern University
Marked by moderation . . . apply insights from Aristotle's metaphysics to his ethics and politics . . .
— Phronesis
. . . high level of scholarship . . . as well as the fact that the majority are unpublished, makes the volume desirable.
— Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
This is a splendid collection of first-rate essays, essential reading not only for those interested in how Aristotle's Ethics relates to his Metaphysics, but for all serious students of Aristotle.
— Alasdair MacIntyre, research professor of philosophy, University of Notre Dame