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  • Perception in Aristotle's Ethics

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    Description:
    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Perception in Aristotle's Ethics seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle’s accounts of perception and ethics in De anima and Nicomachean Ethics, Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of perception (aisthesis), which is...
    Keyword:
    individualism, perception, philosophy, Aristotle, ethics, phenomena, and virtue
    Subject:
    Philosophy
    Creator:
    Rabinoff, Eve
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/20/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/20/2023
    Date Created:
    2018
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3644-1, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3642-7, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3643-4

  • Aristotle's Ontology of Change

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    Description:
    This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, and the teleology of emerging things. He shows that Aristotle’s distinctive ontological claim—that...
    Keyword:
    metaphysics, philosophy, Aristotle, physics, rereading ancient philosophy, and ancient philosophy
    Subject:
    Philosophy
    Creator:
    Sentesy, Mark
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    02/20/2020
    Date Modified:
    06/08/2022
    Date Created:
    2020
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4190-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4188-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4189-6