Essays on Aristotle's Ethics (Philosophical Traditions.
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Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics.
In this collection of 21 essays, most written during the 1970s, Amelie Rorty has pulled together some penetrating and diverse analyses of the Nicomachean Ethics (and related works) of Aristotle. One of the valuable features of the book is its arrangement: the essays are grouped according to the books of the Ethics of which they treat. Thus, the.
Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric offers a fresh and comprehensive assessment of a classic work. Aristotle's influence on the practice and theory of rhetoric, as it affects political and legal argumentation, has been continuous and far-reaching. This anthology presents Aristotle's Rhetoric in its.
In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle’s work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics. The essays address such topics as catharsis, pity and fear, pleasure, character and the unity of action, and the modality of dramatic action.
Aristotle first used the term ethics to name a field of study developed by his predecessors Socrates and Plato.In philosophy, ethics is the attempt to offer a rational response to the question of how humans should best live. Aristotle regarded ethics and politics as two related but separate fields of study, since ethics examines the good of the individual, while politics examines the good of.
Editorial team. General Editors: David Bourget (Western Ontario) David Chalmers (ANU, NYU) Area Editors: David Bourget Gwen Bradford.
RORTY'S ESSAYS ON ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS 703 divergence ought to alert us to trouble, for in the phronimos virtue of character and practical wisdom are so thoroughly interwoven that any difficulties in Aristotle's case for the one must have serious consequences for the other, and hence for the viability of the entire enterprise.
This book presents twenty essays on various aspects of Aristotle’s De Anima. These cover topics such as the relation between the body and soul, functionalism, sense-perception, imagination, memory, intellect, and desire. It includes an introduction that provides a description of the manuscripts of the De Anima, commentaries, and its links with other works.
A monograph, Mind in Action: Essays in Philosophy of Mind, was published by Beacon Press in 1988 (paperback edition 1991). She also edited and contributed to Explaining Emotions (U. California Press, 1980), Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics (1980, U.California Press), and co-edited Essays on Aristotle’s De Anima (Oxford, 1992) with Martha Nussbaum.
Essays On Aristotles Ethics by Amelie Rorty available in Trade Paperback on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics deals with character and its proper development in the acquisition of.
Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics. The essays address such topics as catharsis, pity.
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