Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy

In this book, Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking.

Claudia Baracchi (Author)

9781107400511, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 February 2011

354 pages
22.6 x 15 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg

In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. Referring to a broad range of texts from the Aristotelian corpus, Baracchi shows how the theoretical is always informed by a set of practices, and specifically, how one's encounter with phenomena, the world, or nature in the broadest sense, is always a matter of ethos. Such a 'modern' intimation can, thus, be found at the heart of Greek thought. Baracchi's book opens the way for a comprehensively reconfigured approach to classical Greek philosophy.

Introduction
Part I. Prelude: Before Ethics: Metaphysics A and Posterior Analytics B
1. Metaphysics A: on 'metaphysics' and desire
2. Posterior analytics: on Nous and Aisthesis
3. Architecture as first philosophy
Part II. Main Section: Ethikon Nikomakheion Alpha-Eta: 4. Human initiative and its orientation to the good
5. On happiness
6. On the soul
7. On justice
8. The virtues of the intellect
Part III. Interlude: Metaphysics Gamma: 9. Aporiai of the science of 'being qua being'
10. The principle 'by nature'
11. Reiterations
12. Teleology, indefinable and indubitable
13. The phenomenon of truth and the action of thinking
Part IV. Concluding Section: Ethikon Nikomakheion Theta-Kappa
14. Friendship and justice: inceptive remarks
15. Perfection and friendship
16. Again on friendship and justice
17. On happiness or the good
18. Again on Logos and Praxis
Part V. Kolophon.

Subject Areas: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology [HPJ], Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]