Aristotle's Method in Ethics
Aristotle's Method in Ethics

Author: Joseph Karbowski

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1108419593

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This book argues for a scientific interpretation of Aristotle's ethical method and takes an innovative approach toward understanding his conception of philosophy. It will interest readers working in the fields of philosophy, classics, political theory, history of ethics, and the relation between philosophy and science.

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Richard Kraut

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1405153148

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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethicsilluminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics andstudents new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays bydistinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors the organization of theNichomachean Ethics itself. Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, thedistinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness,self-control, and pleasure.

Aristotle on Desire
Aristotle on Desire

Author: Giles Pearson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1139561014

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Desire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself. This book reconstructs the account of desire latent in his various scattered remarks on the subject and analyses its role in his moral psychology. Topics include: the range of states that Aristotle counts as desires (orexeis); objects of desire (orekta) and the relation between desires and envisaging prospects; desire and the good; Aristotle's three species of desire: epithumia (pleasure-based desire), thumos (retaliatory desire) and boulêsis (good-based desire - in a narrower notion of 'good' than that which connects desire more generally to the good); Aristotle's division of desires into rational and non-rational; Aristotle and some current views on desire; and the role of desire in Aristotle's moral psychology. The book will be of relevance to anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics or psychology.

Animals, Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethics
Animals, Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethics

Author: Stephen T. Newmyer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1135130515

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This groundbreaking volume explores Plutarch's unique survival in the argument that animals are rational and sentient, and that we, as humans, must take notice of their interests. Exploring Plutarch's three animal-related treatises, as well as passages from his ethical treatises, Stephen Newmyer examines arguments that, strikingly, foreshadow those found in the works of such prominent animal rights philosophers as Peter Singer and Tom Regan. Unique in viewing Plutarch’s opinions not only in the context of ancient philosophical and ethical through, but also in its place in the history of animal rights speculation, Animals Rights and Reasons points out how remarkably Plutarch differs from such anti-animal thinkers as the Stoics. Classicists, philosophers, animal-welfare students and interested readers will all find this book an invaluable and informative addition to their reading.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics

Author: Thomas Williams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1107167744

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Offers historical and topical chapters on the whole range of medieval ethical thought in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic philosophy.