Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-330) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- On Ethics as First Philosophy -- On Interpreting Aristotle: Epistēmē as First Philosophy? -- Prelude. Before Ethics: Metaphysics A and Posterior Analytics B.19 -- Metaphysics A: On "Metaphysics" and Desire -- Posterior Analytics: On Nous and Aisthēsis -- Architecture as First Philosophy -- Main Section. Ēthikōn Nikomakheiōn Alpha-Eta -- Human Initiative and its Orientation to the good -- On Happiness -- On the Soul -- On Justice -- The Virtues of the Intellect -- Interlude. Metaphysics Gamma -- Aporiai of the Science of "Being qua Being" -- The Principle "By Nature" -- Reiterations -- Teleology, Indefinable and Indubitable -- The Phenomenon of Truth and the Action of Thinking -- Concluding Section. Ēthikōn Nikomakheiōn Theta-Kappa -- Friendship and Justice: Inceptive Remarks -- Perfection of Friendship -- Again on Friendship and Justice -- On Happiness or the Good -- Again on Logos and Praxis -- Kolophon.
Summary:
"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. Such a "modern" intimation is shown to be found at the heart of Greek thought. Baracchi's book opens the way for a comprehensively reconfigured approach to classical Greek philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.
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