Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics' by Christopher Warne

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Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics' by Christopher Warne

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Zusammenfassung

Offers an account of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" - a key philosophical work. This book sets Aristotle's work in context, introduces the major themes and provides a detailed discussion of the key sections and passages of the text. It goes on to explore some of the areas of thought that the "Nicomachean Ethics" has impacted upon.

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Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics' by Christopher Warne

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, based on lectures that he gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, is one of the most significant works of moral philosophy ever written. Aristotle, though of course influenced by the works of Plato, diverges sharply from his predecessor by making the practice, rather than the possession, of virtue the key to human happiness. By converting ethics from a theoretical to a practical science, and by introducing psychology into his study of behaviour, Aristotle both widened the field of moral philosophy and simultaneously made it more accessible to anyone who seeks an understanding of human nature. The theory of 'Virtue Ethics' Aristotle put forward still continues to be a major position of ethical thought to this day, his influence being strongly present in the work of Elizabeth Anscombe, Phillipa Foot and Alisdair McIntyre.

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Christopher Warne teaches in the Department of Philosophy, Sir George Monoux College, UK.
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780826485557
ISBN 10 0826485553
Titel Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics'
Autor Christopher Warne
Serie Reader's Guides
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsjahr 2006-10-10
Seitenanzahl 166
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