Ethics with Aristotle

Name: Ethics with Aristotle
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ISBN: 9780195066012

ISBN-10: 0195066014

ISBN-13: 9780195066012

Edition: 1991

Authors: Sarah Broadie

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In this incisive study Sarah Broadie gives an argued account of the main topics of Aristotle's ethics: eudaimonia, virtue, voluntary agency, practical reason, akrasia, pleasure, and the ethical status of theoria. She explores the sense of "eudaimonia," probes Aristotle's division of the soul and its virtues, and traces the ambiguities in "voluntary." Fresh light is shed on his comparison of practical wisdom with other kinds of knowledge, and a realistic account is developed of Aristototelian deliberation. The concept of pleasure as value-judgment is expounded, and the problem of akrasia is argued to be less of a problem to Aristotle than to his modern interpreters. Showing that the…

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List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/10/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.63" long x 1.51" tall
Weight: 1.848

Sarah Broadie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, UK. A specialist in Classical Philosophy, she is interested in many areas of metaphysics and ethics, modern as well as ancient.

Happiness, the Supreme End	p. 3
Presuppositions of the Question	p. 3
The Statesman's Objective	p. 8
Method and Starting Points	p. 17
What is Happiness?	p. 24
Happiness Defined	p. 34
Taking Stock of the Definition	p. 41
On the Other Goods and the Scope of 'Happiness'	p. 50
Virtues and Parts of the Soul	p. 57
Why an Ethics of Virtue?	p. 57
Division of the Soul (I)	p. 61
Division of the Soul (II)	p. 67
Preliminaries on the Development of Virtue	p. 72
Virtue of Character and the Orthos Logos	p. 74
'A Prohairetic State'	p. 78
Conditions of Virtuous Action	p. 82
'With Pleasure' and 'for the Sake of the Noble'	p. 90
The Status of the Mean	p. 95
How We Learn to Be Good	p. 103
A Basis for Justice	p. 110
The Voluntary	p. 124
General Perspectives	p. 124
Strains in 'the Voluntary'	p. 132
Excuses and Nonexcuses	p. 142
'It Depends on Him'	p. 149
Character as Voluntary (I)	p. 159
Character as Voluntary (II)	p. 164
Practical Wisdom	p. 179
The Structure of Rational Choice	p. 179
The Purpose of NE Book VI	p. 185
Probing the Craft Analogy	p. 190
Against the 'Grand End' View	p. 198
Practice and Production	p. 202
Thought and Desire in Rational Choice	p. 212
'Practical Truth'	p. 219
The Works of Reason	p. 225
End and Means in Deliberation	p. 232
Character and Intelligence in Deliberation (I)	p. 242
Character and Intelligence in Deliberation (II)	p. 250
Incontinence	p. 266
The Field of Incontinence	p. 266
How Incontinence Is Possible (I)	p. 274
How Incontinence Is Possible (II)	p. 280
Incontinent Ignorance	p. 287
Essential Features and Contingent Manifestations	p. 292
Aristotle's Analysis	p. 297
Pleasure	p. 313
Why the Investigation of Pleasure?	p. 313
Pleasure and Natural Inclination	p. 320
The Challenge of Neutralism	p. 324
Pleasure as Value-Judgment	p. 331
Against the Process Theory	p. 339
Nature, Pleasure and Reason	p. 346
The Limits of Hedonism	p. 353
Aristotle's Values	p. 366
New Directions from Old	p. 366
The Problem	p. 370
Goods and Ends in the Eudemian Ethics	p. 373
Theoria in the Eudemian Ethics	p. 383
A Sketch of the Nicomachean Position	p. 388
The Need to Justify Theoria	p. 392
Divine Activity versus Human Happiness	p. 398
Living like the Gods	p. 408
The Crown of Happiness	p. 412
Leisure, Pleasure and Serious Activities	p. 419
The Best Life	p. 427
Works Cited	p. 439
Texts of Aristotle	p. 439
Other Works	p. 439
Name Index	p. 445
Subject Index	p. 449
Index Locorum Aristotelis	p. 453
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