Aristotle : The Desire to Understand
Jonathan. Lear
Bok Engelsk 1988 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1988
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (342 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface page; 1 The desire to understand; 2 Nature; 2.1 Nature as an inner principle of change; 2.2 Understanding and 'the why'29; 2.3 Four fashions; 4 The hearts of animals; 3 Change; 3.1 The Parmenidean challenge; 3.2 The analysis of change; 3.3 The media of change I: the infinite; 3.4 The media of change II: theinfinity of time 54; 3.5 A paradox of change: Zeno's arrow80; 4 Man's nature; 4.1 Soul 1; 4.2 Perception; 4.3 Mind 58; 4.4 Active mind 99; 4.5 Mind in action 108; 5 Ethics and the organization of desire. - 5.1 The point of the Nicomachean Ethics 15.2 Happiness and man's nature; 5.3 Virtue; 5.4 Incontinence 58; 5.5 Freedom and virtue; 5.6 The master-slave dialectic 87; 6 Understanding the broad structure of reality; 6.1 Aristotle's logic 1; 6.2 Aristotle's philosophy of mathematics 27; 6.3 Metaphysics: the inquiry into being as being 58; 6.4 The most certain principle of being 64; 6.5 What is substance? 96; 6.6 A tourist's guide to Metaphysics VII 110; 6.7 Mind's place outside of nature 186; 6.8 Man's place outside of nature 219; Select bibliography; Index. - In this 1988 book, Professor Lear introduces Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts.
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| ISBN | 0521345235. - 0521347629
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