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What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all set against a rich and humane conception of what makes for a flourishing life. Adam Beresford's freshly researched translation presents many of Aristotle's key terms and...
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Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the importance of context to ethical behavior, and the ability of the virtuous person to recognize the best course of action. Aristotle argued that happiness and well being is the goal of life, and that a person's pursuit of such, rightly conceived, will result in virtuous conduct. "EVERY art and every inquiry, and...
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A collection of writings by Greek philosopher Aristotle, thought to be lecture notes for classes he taught at the Lyceum, including the complete texts of the "Posterior Analytics," "De Anima," "Nichomachean Ethics," and "Poetics"; as well as selections from the "Physics," and "Metaphysics."
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The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the 'philosophy of human affairs;' but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author's whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge...
7) De Anima
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In “De Anima”, Aristotle seeks to uncover what separates the living from the dead. He steers a course between two extremes, with all of reality as nothing more than atoms on one side and the mind as independent from the body on the other side. Ultimately, he invents a third kind of position that views mental phenomena to be thoroughly dependent on, though not reducible to, physical events.
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Combined in this volume are two works by Aristotle, On the Heavens and On Generation and Corruption. The first work, On the Heavens is Aristotle's cosmological treatise, in which Aristotle details his astronomical theories. The second work, On Generation and Corruption, is a work of science philosophy. Building upon his arguments in Physics, Aristotle poses the question as to whether or not the act of something coming into being is the result of a...
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Aristotle is indisputably of central importance to the development of philosophical and scientific thought in the western world. Here he refers to three types of lives, the common life, the political life, and the contemplative life, to which he assigns the highest order. Certainly, this is the most difficult life. Similar to Socrates, Aristotle believed that 'the unexamined life is a life not worth living.'
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La Ética a Nicómaco es una colección de textos de Aristóteles, destinados a ser leídos y discutidos en el Liceo, su escuela en Atenas. Examina la naturaleza de la virtud y el contenido de muchas de ellas, reflexiona sobre la felicidad, el placer y el dolor, y ofrece sobre todo un excelente tratado sobre la amistad. Esta selección recoge textos que gozan de vigencia universal tanto en el espacio como en el tiempo.
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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato. He taught Alexander the Great, and wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and...
12) Metaphysics
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"All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge," declared Aristotle. The philosopher's works are foundational to the history of science, and his treatise on metaphysics, or "first philosophy," is divided into sections on previous philosophical thought and theories; a refutation of skepticism; a demonstration of God's existence; an examination of the relation of metaphysics to the other sciences; an elucidation of the nature of the infinite;...
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Nicomachean Ethics moves beyond the purely theoretical analysis of moral philosophy by examining its practical application. It is one of the world's great books by Aristotle. Aristotle is well, known for the precision with which he chooses his words, and in this elegant translation, his work has found its ideal match. Aristotelian ethics is, concerned with how an individual should best live their life and at its core asserts the idea that the most...
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El filósofo griego Aristóteles es considerado, al igual que Platón (de quien fue discípulo), pionero y padre de la filosofía occidental. Por lo sistemático de sus estudios, el rigor con el que los llevaba a cabo y la diversidad de los campos que abarcó, se considera también uno de los primeros investigadores científicos dentro del concepto moderno del término. Puede afirmarse que sus ideas han influenciado el pensamiento intelectual en occidente...
15) On the heavens
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THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be. For of things constituted by nature some are bodies and magnitudes, some possess body and magnitude, and some are principles of things which possess these. Now a continuum is that which is divisible into parts always capable of...
16) Ética a nicómaco
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Parece claro que la felicidad es el fin último al que aspira la vida humana. Pero ¿cuál es la verdadera esencia de la felicidad? A esta espinosa cuestión se enfrenta Aristóteles (384 – 322 a. C.) en la Ética a Nicómaco.
Resultado de la selección realizada por su hijo Nicómaco con las notas que el propio autor utilizaba para sus lecciones en el Liceo, la obra resume las claves de la reflexión moral de su autor. Y aún más meritorio es...
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The ancient Greek philosopher's classic work on happiness and its roots in virtue and good character.
How should we live? What is the importance of such qualities as courage, generosity, and wisdom? The man who would become one of the greatest influences on Western thinking about morality explores these questions and delves into topics such as practical reasoning, friendship, pleasure, and our role in society and government. This is a classic work...
18) On the Soul
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Written in 350 BC, Aristotle's "De Anima" or "On the Soul" is not a work on spirituality, as the title would suggest, but rather a work that could be described as one of biopsychology, or a work on the subject of psychology from a biological perspective. Aristotle's exposition centers on the soul. Aristotle's soul however is not the same as the common modern spiritual conception of something distinct from the body that lives on past death. Rather...
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Der dritte Band der Philosophischen Schriften enthält die deutsche Übersetzung der Nikomachischen Ethik. Ihr Gegenstand ist das ›tätige Leben‹ des Menschen (als eines aus Leib und Seele zusammengesetzten Ganzen): Gerechtigkeit, Tapferkeit und andere Tugenden in allem Handeln mit dem Ziel zu verwirklichen, ein Höchstmaß an Glückseligkeit zu erlangen. Die Ethiken des Aristoteles bilden die ersten grundlegenden und umfassenden Analysen zur...
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Der zweite Band der Philosophischen Schriften enthält mit der Topik und den Sophistischen Widerlegungen zwei Texte, die dem sogenannten Organon, also den logischen und methodischen Schriften des Aristoteles, zugerechnet werden.
Die Sophistischen Widerlegungen (De sophisticis elenchis) werden meist als neuntes Buch der Topik bezeichnet und sind dieser als Anhang beigegeben. In der Topik begründet Aristoteles einen Argumentationsschlüssel, in dem...
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