The Resource Action, contemplation, and happiness : an essay on Aristotle, C.D.C. Reeve
Action, contemplation, and happiness : an essay on Aristotle, C.D.C. Reeve
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- Summary
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- The notion of practical wisdom is one of Aristotle's greatest inventions. It has inspired philosophers as diverse as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Thompson, and John McDowell. Now a leading scholar of ancient philosophy offers a challenge to received accounts of practical wisdom by situating it in the larger context of Aristotle's views on knowledge and reality. That happiness is the end pursued by practical wisdom is commonly agreed. What is disputed is whether happiness is to be found in the practical life of political action, in which we exhibit courage, temperance, and other virtues of character, or in the contemplative life, where theoretical wisdom is the essential virtue. C.D.C. Reeve argues that the dichotomy is bogus, that these lives are in fact parts of a single life, which is the best human one. In support of this view, he develops innovative accounts of many of the central notions in Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, and psychology, including matter and form, scientific knowledge, dialectic, educatedness, perception, understanding, political science, practical truth, deliberation, and deliberate choice. These accounts are based directly on freshly translated passages from many of Aristotle's writings. Action, Contemplation, and Happiness is an accessible essay not just on practical wisdom but on Aristotle's philosophy as a whole
- This accessible and innovative essay on Aristotle, based on fresh translations of a wide selection of his writings, challenges received interpretations of his accounts of practical wisdom, action, and contemplation and of their places in the happiest human life
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages)
- Contents
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- The transmission of form and soul
- Desire, perception, and understanding
- Theoretical wisdom
- Virtue of character
- Practical wisdom
- Immortalizing beings
- Happiness
- The happiest life
- Isbn
- 9780674065475
- Label
- Action, contemplation, and happiness : an essay on Aristotle
- Title
- Action, contemplation, and happiness
- Title remainder
- an essay on Aristotle
- Statement of responsibility
- C.D.C. Reeve
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- The notion of practical wisdom is one of Aristotle's greatest inventions. It has inspired philosophers as diverse as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Thompson, and John McDowell. Now a leading scholar of ancient philosophy offers a challenge to received accounts of practical wisdom by situating it in the larger context of Aristotle's views on knowledge and reality. That happiness is the end pursued by practical wisdom is commonly agreed. What is disputed is whether happiness is to be found in the practical life of political action, in which we exhibit courage, temperance, and other virtues of character, or in the contemplative life, where theoretical wisdom is the essential virtue. C.D.C. Reeve argues that the dichotomy is bogus, that these lives are in fact parts of a single life, which is the best human one. In support of this view, he develops innovative accounts of many of the central notions in Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, and psychology, including matter and form, scientific knowledge, dialectic, educatedness, perception, understanding, political science, practical truth, deliberation, and deliberate choice. These accounts are based directly on freshly translated passages from many of Aristotle's writings. Action, Contemplation, and Happiness is an accessible essay not just on practical wisdom but on Aristotle's philosophy as a whole
- This accessible and innovative essay on Aristotle, based on fresh translations of a wide selection of his writings, challenges received interpretations of his accounts of practical wisdom, action, and contemplation and of their places in the happiest human life
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Reeve, C. D. C.
- Dewey number
- 171/.3
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- B430
- LC item number
- .R45 2012eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Aristotle
- Ethics, Ancient
- Aristoteles
- Glück,..
- PHILOSOPHY
- PHILOSOPHY
- Ethics, Ancient
- Tugend
- Vernunft
- Weisheit
- Label
- Action, contemplation, and happiness : an essay on Aristotle, C.D.C. Reeve
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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- Contents
- The transmission of form and soul -- Desire, perception, and understanding -- Theoretical wisdom -- Virtue of character -- Practical wisdom -- Immortalizing beings -- Happiness -- The happiest life
- Control code
- 794003566
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- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages)
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- online
- Isbn
- 9780674065475
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- unknown
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- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
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- 22573/ctt2f1cxx
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- not applicable
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- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)794003566
- Label
- Action, contemplation, and happiness : an essay on Aristotle, C.D.C. Reeve
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The transmission of form and soul -- Desire, perception, and understanding -- Theoretical wisdom -- Virtue of character -- Practical wisdom -- Immortalizing beings -- Happiness -- The happiest life
- Control code
- 794003566
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780674065475
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt2f1cxx
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
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- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)794003566
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