Action Contemplation and Happiness An Essay on Aristotle 1st Edition by CDC Reeve ISBN 0674063732 9780674063730

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ISBN 10: 0674063732 
ISBN 13: 9780674063730
Author: CDC Reeve

The notion of practical wisdom is one of Aristotle’s greatest inventions. It has inspired philosophers as diverse as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Thompson, and John McDowell. Now a leading scholar of ancient philosophy offers a challenge to received accounts of practical wisdom by situating it in the larger context of Aristotle’s views on knowledge and reality.

That happiness is the end pursued by practical wisdom is commonly agreed. What is disputed is whether happiness is to be found in the practical life of political action, in which we exhibit courage, temperance, and other virtues of character, or in the contemplative life, where theoretical wisdom is the essential virtue. C. D. C. Reeve argues that the dichotomy is bogus, that these lives are in fact parts of a single life, which is the best human one. In support of this view, he develops innovative accounts of many of the central notions in Aristotle’s metaphysics, epistemology, and psychology, including matter and form, scientific knowledge, dialectic, educatedness, perception, understanding, political science, practical truth, deliberation, and deliberate choice. These accounts are based directly on freshly translated passages from many of Aristotle’s writings. Action, Contemplation, and Happiness is an accessible essay not just on practical wisdom but on Aristotle’s philosophy as a whole.

Action Contemplation and Happiness An Essay on Aristotle 1st Table of contents:

• Introduction: Aristotle’s Ethics and the Search for Happiness

  • Overview of Aristotle’s ethical philosophy.
  • The central question of happiness (eudaimonia) and human flourishing in Aristotle’s work.
  • The distinction between different types of lives: the life of pleasure, the life of politics, and the life of contemplation.

• The Nature of Eudaimonia: Happiness as the Highest Good

  • Definition and exploration of eudaimonia in Aristotle’s ethics.
  • How happiness is not merely a subjective feeling but an objective state of flourishing.
  • The role of virtue in achieving happiness, and the connection between moral and intellectual virtues.

• Virtue and the Role of Action in the Good Life

  • Aristotle’s theory of moral virtue and the role of action in cultivating virtue.
  • The doctrine of the “mean” in Aristotle’s ethics: finding balance in our actions.
  • The relationship between habit, choice, and character in moral development.

• The Role of Contemplation in Happiness

  • The concept of intellectual virtue and the highest form of happiness: contemplation (theoria).
  • How contemplation differs from action and why Aristotle considers it the highest activity.
  • The relationship between the contemplative life and the political or active life.

• Action versus Contemplation: A Comparison of Lives

  • Analysis of Aristotle’s tension between the life of action and the life of contemplation.
  • The relative value of each: Can one be happy without contemplation, or is contemplation necessary for the fullest happiness?
  • Philosophical debate surrounding Aristotle’s prioritization of contemplation.

• Aristotle’s View of the Political Life

  • The role of politics and community in achieving eudaimonia.
  • Aristotle’s view of the ethical life within the context of society and citizenship.
  • The balance between personal happiness and contributing to the common good through political action.

• The Role of Friendship and Social Relationships in Eudaimonia

  • The importance of friendship in Aristotle’s ethics, especially in relation to happiness.
  • How true friendship aligns with virtue and contributes to a flourishing life.
  • The role of community and human connection in achieving happiness.

• Theoretical Reflections on the Unity of Action, Contemplation, and Happiness

  • Exploration of the philosophical unity between action, contemplation, and happiness.
  • The broader metaphysical and epistemological assumptions underlying Aristotle’s ethical theory.
  • The ideal life in Aristotle’s ethics as a harmonious blend of different kinds of activities.

• Critiques and Contemporary Interpretations

  • Criticisms of Aristotle’s conception of happiness and the prioritization of contemplation.
  • Modern interpretations and adaptations of Aristotle’s ideas on eudaimonia.
  • Relevance of Aristotle’s philosophy to contemporary ethical theory and practice.

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