Reece Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-78829-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reece, Bryan C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. From the Dilemmatic Problem to the Conjunctive Problem of Happiness; 2. Theoretical and Practical Wisdom; 3. Are There Two Kinds of Happiness?; 4. Is Contemplation Proper to Humans?; 5. Solving the Conjunctive Problem of Happiness.

Über Autor(innen)

Reece, Bryan C.
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.