Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy [Hardcover]

In this book, Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking.In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy, Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. 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.In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy, Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. 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.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.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-lª