Aristotle : the desire to understand / Jonathan Lear.
By: Lear, Jonathan
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TextPublisher: Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988Description: xi, 328 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0521345235; 0521347629 (pbk.)Subject(s): AristotleDDC classification: 185 LOC classification: B485 | .L43 1988| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 321-326.
1. The desire to understand -- 2. Nature -- Nature as an inner principle of change -- Understanding and "the why" -- Four fashions -- The hearts of animals -- 3. Change -- The parmenidean change -- The media of change 1: the infinite -- The media of change 2: the infinity of time -- A paradox of change: Zeno's arrow -- 4. Man's nature -- Soul -- Perception -- Mind -- Active mind -- Mind in action -- 5. Ethics and the organization of desire -- The point of the Nicomachean ethics -- Happiness and man's nature -- Virtue -- Incontinence -- Freedom and virtue -- The master-slave dialectic -- 6. Understanding the broad structure of reality -- Aristotle's logic -- Aristotle's philosophy of mathematics -- Metaphysics: the inquirey into being as being -- The most certain principle of being -- What is substance? -- A tourist's guide to methaphysics 8 -- Mind's place outside of nature -- Man's place outside of nature.
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