Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom
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- Author: Bryan C. Reece, University of Arkansas
- Date Published: June 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108486736
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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.
Read more- Offers a fresh approach to a long-standing interpretive question about Aristotle's theory of happiness
- Orients readers within the enormous secondary literature on Aristotle's ethics that spans languages and millennia
- Highlights the distinctiveness of Aristotle's account of the relationship between theoretical and practical activity in the best human life
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'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 happiness. Rather, 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
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- Date Published: June 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108486736
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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