Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom by Bryan C Reece

Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom by Bryan C Reece

Aristotle thinks that happiness is an activity – it consists in doing something – rather than a feeling. It is the best activity of which humans are capable and is spread out over the course of a life. But what kind of activity is it? Some of his remarks indicate that it is a single best kind of activity, intellectual contemplation. Other evidence suggests that it is an overarching activity that has various virtuous activities, ethical and intellectual, as parts. Numerous interpreters have sharply disagreed about Aristotle's answers to such questions. In this book, Bryan Reece offers a fundamentally new approach to determining what kind of activity Aristotle thinks happiness is, one that challenges widespread assumptions that have until now prevented a dialectically satisfactory interpretation. His approach displays the boldness and systematicity of Aristotle's practical philosophy.

'On Reece's view, the real problem (what he calls the Hard Problem of Happiness) is not that Aristotle appears to hold two different and incompatible views about happinessRather, the problem is that he clearly holds just one view of happiness which appears to involve contradictory claims. Reece's argument for seeing Aristotle's discussion in this new way is not only persuasive but also successful in injecting new life into an old and heavily discussed topic.' Jozef Müller, University of California, Riverside

Bryan C. Reece is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas. He has published various articles on ancient Greek ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of action.

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ISBN 13	9781108486736
ISBN 10	1108486738
Titre	Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom
Auteur	Bryan C Reece
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Éditeur	Cambridge University Press
Année de publication	2023-06-29
Nombre de pages	240
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