San Antonio College Library

"Aristotle's Nichomachaean Ethics is one of the most important and central texts in the history of Western philosophy. It lies at the heart of contemporary moral theory and is essential to understanding the history of ethics." "Gerard J. Hughes provides students with a guide to Aristotle's Nichomachaean Ethics. He explains the key elements in Aristotle's terminology and highlights the controversy regarding the interpretations of his writings. The...

"Rational Man introduces readers to Aristotle's thoughts on ethics, interweaving questions and answers, reaching back to previous remarks and anticipating what is yet to come in the argument. Veatch uses literature, especially Jane Austen, to illustrate how vice is destructive and virtue is perfective of human flourishing and how ethics concern human character: Virtue and vice are quite real, and Veatch fortifies the reader to use both heart and intellect...

Historical and systematic in scope. In the systematic aspect it realates Aristotle's theory of art to the perennial desiderta of any theory of art, particularly that of Kandinsky.

This book explores for the first time an idea common to both Plato and Aristotle: although people are separate, their lives need not be; one person's life may overflow into another's, so that helping someone else is a way of serving oneself. Price considers how this idea unites the philosophers' treatments of love and friendship (which are otherwise very different), and demonstrates that this view of love and friendship, applied not only to personal...

Based on Aristotle's 'The Politics', these lectures discuss a wide spectrum of history & theory in order to examine the realm of politics. This is the only published collection of seminars from Morgenthau, revealing him as both a teacher & a thinker.