The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck
The Sixth S.V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Biographical note
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.
Contributors: David Charles, Christopher Rowe, M.M. McCabe, Jennifer Whiting, Friedemann Buddensiek, and Brad Inwood.
Contributors: David Charles, Christopher Rowe, M.M. McCabe, Jennifer Whiting, Friedemann Buddensiek, and Brad Inwood.
Readership
All those - academics, students, and the educated and curious alike - with an interest in Aristotle, Aristotle's ethics, virtue ethics, and ancient philosophy, as well as classical philologists.
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction, by Brad Inwood and Fiona Leigh
List of Contributors
Chapter One. The Eudemian Ethics on the ‘voluntary’
David Charles
Chapter Two. Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics on loving people and things
Christopher Rowe
Chapter Three. With mirrors or without? Self-perception in Eudemian Ethics VII.12
Mary Margaret McCabe
Chapter Four. The pleasure of thinking together: Prolegomenon to a complete reading of EE VII.12
Jennifer Whiting
Chapter Five. Does good fortune matter? Eudemian Ethics VIII.2 on eutuchia
Friedemann Buddensiek
Index of Passages Cited
General Index
Introduction, by Brad Inwood and Fiona Leigh
List of Contributors
Chapter One. The Eudemian Ethics on the ‘voluntary’
David Charles
Chapter Two. Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics on loving people and things
Christopher Rowe
Chapter Three. With mirrors or without? Self-perception in Eudemian Ethics VII.12
Mary Margaret McCabe
Chapter Four. The pleasure of thinking together: Prolegomenon to a complete reading of EE VII.12
Jennifer Whiting
Chapter Five. Does good fortune matter? Eudemian Ethics VIII.2 on eutuchia
Friedemann Buddensiek
Index of Passages Cited
General Index
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