Description: Further DetailsTitle: Aristotle's Discovery of the HumanCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: Piety and Politics in the "Nicomachean Ethics"ISBN-10: 0268205450EAN: 9780268205454ISBN: 9780268205454Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressRelease Date: 07/15/2023Description: Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human offers a fresh, illuminating, and accessible analysis of one of the Western philosophical tradition’s most important texts. In Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human, noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols explores the ways in which Aristotle brings the gods and the divine into his “philosophizing about human affairs” in his Nicomachean Ethics. Her analysis shows that, for Aristotle, both piety and politics are central to a flourishing human life. Aristotle argues that piety provides us not only an awareness of our kinship to the divine, and hence elevates human life, but also an awareness of a divinity that we cannot entirely assimilate or fathom. Piety therefore supports a politics that strives for excellence at the same time that it checks excess through a recognition of human limitation. Proceeding through each of the ten books of the Ethics, Nichols shows that this prequel to Aristotle’s Politics is as theoretical as it is practical. Its goal of improving political life and educating citizens and statesmen is inseparable from its pursuit of the truth about human beings and their relation to the divine. In the final chapter, which turns to contemporary political debate, Nichols’s suggestion of the possibility of supplementing and deepening liberalism on Aristotelian grounds is supported by the account of human nature, virtue, friendship, and community developed throughout her study of the Ethics.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 24mmAuthor: Mary P. NicholsGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityType: Political Science & IdeologyRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Aristotle's Discovery of the Human
Title: Aristotle's Discovery of the Human
Subtitle: Piety and Politics in the "Nicomachean Ethics"
ISBN-10: 0268205450
EAN: 9780268205454
ISBN: 9780268205454
Release Date: 07/15/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 356 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Aristotle's Discovery of the Human : Piety and Politics in the Nicomachean Ethics
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Theory, Political, Philosophy
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.6 Oz
Author: Mary P. Nichols
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Religion, Political Science, Philosophy
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
