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Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Each essay focuses on a single philosopher, school of philosophers, or philosophical era. The accounts examine and compare Aristotle's views and those of his heirs and also offer a reception history of the ethics, dealing with matters such as the availability and circulation of Aristotle's texts during the periods in question. The resulting volume will be a valuable source of information and arguments for anyone working in the history of ethics.

Ethics, Ancient. --- Morale ancienne --- Aristotle. --- Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle). --- Aristote, --- Morale --- Aristote --- Morale. --- Ethics, Ancient --- Ancient ethics --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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Aristotle's study of the natural world plays a tremendously important part in his philosophical thought. He was very interested in the phenomena of motion, causation, place and time, and teleology, and his theoretical materials in this area are collected in his Physics, a treatise of eight books which has been very influential on later thinkers. This volume of new essays provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle in terms of its understanding of key concepts and preferred methodology. The contributions reassess the key concepts of the treatise (including nature, chance, teleology, art, and motion), reconstruct Aristotle's methods for the study of nature, and determine the boundaries of his natural philosophy. Because of the foundational nature of Aristotle's Physics itself, the volume will be a must-read for all scholars working on Aristotle.

Physics --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Science --- Philosophie ancienne --- Sciences --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Aristotle. --- Physique --- Philosophie antique --- Philosophie des sciences --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Philosophy --- Aristote, --- Early works to 1800. --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Physics (Aristotle) --- Philosophie antique. --- Philosophie des sciences. --- Aristote --- Science - Philosophy

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In this book, Kevin M. Cherry compares the views of Plato and Aristotle about the practice, study and, above all, the purpose of politics. The first scholar to place Aristotle's Politics in sustained dialogue with Plato's Statesman, Cherry argues that Aristotle rejects the view of politics advanced by Plato's Eleatic Stranger, contrasting them on topics such as the proper categorization of regimes, the usefulness and limitations of the rule of law, and the proper understanding of phronēsis. The various differences between their respective political philosophies, however, reflect a more fundamental difference in how they view the relationship of human beings to the natural world around them. Reading the Politics in light of the Statesman sheds new light on Aristotle's political theory and provides a better understanding of Aristotle's criticism of Socrates. Most importantly, it highlights an enduring and important question: should politics have as its primary purpose the preservation of life, or should it pursue the higher good of living well?

Contribution à la philosophie politique --- Philosophie politique --- Platon, --- Aristote, --- Aristote --- Contribution à la philosophie politique. --- Political science --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Philosophy --- History --- Aristotle. --- Plato.

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This volume discusses the relationship between the four extant ancient commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics of Alexander of Aphrodisias, Syrianus, Asclepius and Ps. Alexander. Comparative analysis of these commentaries allows Luna to attribute the Ps. Alexander to Michael of Ephesis and to show to what extend Syrianus made use of Alexander and Asclepius of both of them. The author draws up a precise genealogy of these Metaphysics commentaries. The book is indispensable for anyone working on the history of Aristotelian exegesis.

Aristotle. --- Aristotle --- Aristoteles. --- Aristoteles --- Aristote --- Aristotile --- Metaphysics (Aristotle) --- Aristotle's Metaphysics (Aristotle) --- Metaphysica (Aristoteles) --- Metaphysica (Aristotle) --- Metaphysik (Aristotle) --- Métaphysique (Aristotle) --- Meta ta physika (Aristotle) --- Aristotle - Metaphysics

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In this volume, nine leading scholars of ancient philosophy offer a systematic study of Book Beta of Aristotle's Metaphysics. They work through a series of problems which Aristotle presents, discussing such topics as causation, substance, properties, & the ontology of both the perishable & the imperishable world.

Métaphysique --- Aristote --- Aristotle. --- Metaphysics --- Métaphysique. --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Aristoteles. --- Aristotle. - Metaphysics. - Book 3 - Congresses --- Aristotle. - Metaphysics. - Book 3