Pleasure in Aristotle's ethics
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Pleasure in Aristotle's ethics
（Continuum studies in ancient philosophy）
Continuum, c2007
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Bibliographiy: p. [151]-155
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics" provides an innovative and crucially important account of the role of pleasure and desire in Aristotle's ethics. Michael Weinman seeks to overcome common impasses in the mainstream interpretation of Aristotle's ethical philosophy through the careful study of Aristotle's account of pleasure in the human, but not merely human, good, thus presenting a new way in which we can improve our understanding of Aristotle's ethics. Weinman asserts that we should read Aristotle's ethical arguments in the light of his views on the cosmos (the living whole we call nature) and the never-changing principles informing that living whole. Weinman shows that what, above all else, emerges from this new re-reading of the ethical writings is a new understanding of human desire as the natural stretching ourselves toward pleasure, which is the good, and which is the good by nature. These lessons will demonstrate why we must understand the virtues as unified, why the good described in "Nicomachean Ethics" is both a human and greater-than-human good, and why the reasoning and desiring parts of the soul must be understood as companions.
The necessary but as yet unrealised account of pleasure this book advances is integral to improving our understanding of Aristotle's ethics. This fascinating book will be of interest to anyone with an interest in Aristotle's ethical theory and in particular his "Nicomachean Ethics".
目次
- Introduction: The three central impasses in understanding Aristotle's ethics
- I. Pleasure, Desire and Good in the Physical Writings
- 1. The natural unity of all pleasures and desires
- 2. The natural unity of pleasures and desires and the human good
- 3. The natural good underlying all thinking and perceiving
- 4. Thinking, perceiving and embodiment
- 5. The universality of the cosmological good
- 6. The unity of the human and cosmological good
- II. Pleasure, Desire and the Good in the Ethical Writings
- 7. Deliberate desire: knowledge, choice and the inculcation of virtue
- 8. Intellectual virtue and the unity of thinking and desire
- 9. The limit case: akrasia and the apparent conflict of thinking and desire
- 10. Plurality of pleasures and unity of the good: how can they go together?
- 11. Pleasure as good, the good or no good: surveying extant positions
- 12. The wholeness of pleasure and/as the good
- Conclusion: The wholeness of pleasure and solving the impasses.
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