Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom

This book seeks to understand Aristotle's influential answers to the questions: What is happiness? What is the relationship between intellectual and practical activity? How do wise people behave? It offers a fundamentally new approach to determining what kind of activity Aristotle thinks happiness is.

List of contents

1. From the Dilemmatic Problem to the Conjunctive Problem of Happiness; 2. Theoretical and Practical Wisdom; 3. Are There Two Kinds of Happiness?; 4. Is Contemplation Proper to Humans?; 5. Solving the Conjunctive Problem of Happiness.

About the author

Bryan C. Reece is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas. He has published various articles on ancient Greek ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of action.

Summary

This book seeks to understand Aristotle's influential answers to the questions: What is happiness? What is the relationship between intellectual and practical activity? How do wise people behave? It offers a fundamentally new approach to determining what kind of activity Aristotle thinks happiness is.

Foreword

A unique and compelling solution to a widely discussed problem for Aristotle's ethics: determining what kind of activity happiness is.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan C. Reece, Bryan C. (University of Arkansas) Reece
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781108708234
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70823-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500