The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck

by Leigh, Fiona

• ISBN13: 9789004225367
• ISBN10: 9004225366
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Reflecting the relatively recent high level of scholarly interest in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics (EE), each paper in this collection is concerned first and foremost to understand the arguments from the EE it examines in terms of that work alone. The papers, by David Charles, Christopher Rowe, M.M. McCabe, Jennifer Whiting, and Friedemann Buddensiek, focus variously on the topics of the voluntary, friendship and luck, only drawing on other texts in the service of illuminating the EE. The result is a volume containing novel, at times even conflicting, readings of questions central to understanding this important text and Aristotle's ethics in general.

Author Biography

Fiona Leigh, Ph.D (2007) in Philosophy, Monash University, is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College London. She has published a number of articles in journals (Phronesis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy), mainly on Plato's later metaphysics in the Sophist.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
The Eudemian Ethics on the 'Voluntary'	p. 1
Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics on Loving People and Things	p. 29
With Mirrors or Without? Self-Perception in Eudemian Ethics VII.12	p. 43
The Pleasure of Thinking Together: Prolegomenon to a Complete Reading of EE VII.12	p. 77
Does Good Fortune Matter? Eudemian Ethics VIII.2 on Eutuchia	p. 155
Index of Passages Cited	p. 185
General Index	p. 193
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