Happy lives and the highest good : an essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics / Gabriel Richardson Lear.
"Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. The Finality Criterion
- Ch. 3. The Self-Sufficiency of Happiness
- Ch. 4. Acting for the Sake of an Object of Love
- Ch. 5. Theoretical and Practical Reason
- Ch. 6. Moral Virtue and To Kalon
- Ch. 7. Courage, Temperance, and Greatness of Soul
- Ch. 8. Two Happy Lives and Their Most Final Ends
- App. Acting for Love in the Symposium.