Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 10.5. Sophia without a Prime Mover?. 1.1. An Introduction to the Utility Question -- 1.2. Some Matters of Method -- 1.3. A Quick Stroll down the Peripatos -- 2. Useless Contemplation as an Ultimate End -- 2.1. Rereading the Nicomachean Ethics' Opening Chapters -- 2.2. Life-Activity "According to the Best and Most Complete" Virtue -- 2.3. Sophia as the Highest Virtue in Nicomachean Ethics VI -- 2.4. The Nature and Objects of Sophia and Contemplation -- 2.5. Contemplation, Uselessness, and Leisureliness -- 3. The Threptic Basis of Living -- 3.1. Why Examine the Nutritive Basis of Life? -- 3.2. Aristotle on the Parts of Soul -- 3.3. Understanding the Threptikon: The Metaphysics of Mortal Beings -- 3.4. The Threptikon as Nutritive -- 3.5. The Threptikon as Reproductive -- 4. Authoritative Functions, Ultimate Ends, and the Good for Living Organisms -- 4.1. Threptic Subservience to the Aisthetikon -- 4.2. Perceptive Guidance and the "Nature Does Nothing in Vain" Principle -- 4.3. A Puzzle about Nutrition and Perception -- 4.4. "Living by" an Authoritative Function and Living Well -- 4.5. Divine Approximation, Persistence and Activity, and the Good -- 5. The Utility Question Restated -- and How Not to Address It -- 5.1. From Perception to Contemplative Nous -- and the Utility Question -- 5.2. Two Initial Responses to the Utility Question -- 5.3. A Deeper Response to the Utility Question: Nous and Nonnaturalism? -- 5.4. Nous and Nature in On the Parts of Animals -- 5.5. Nous and Nature in De Anima and Problems -- 5.6. Nicomachean Ethics X.7-8: The Separability and Divinity of Nous -- 5.7. Three Problems to Consider -- 6. The First Wave: Reason, Desire, and Threptic Guidance in the Harmonized Soul -- 6.1. Epithumia -- 6.2. Thumos -- 6.3. Reason, Ethical Virtue, and the Regulation of Nonrational Desire -- 6.4. Psychic Harmony, the Human Good, and Self-Maintenance -- 6.5. Ethical Vice and Impaired Threptic Prospects -- 6.6. Reason -- Or Practical Reason? -- 7. The Second Wave: Complete Virtue and the Utility of Contemplation -- 7.1. Does Sophia Possess More than Formal Utility? -- 7.2. Aristotle on Ethical Development: From the "That" to the "Why" -- 7.3. Theoretical Understanding as a Condition for Complete Virtue -- 7.4. Theoretical Understanding and Horoi for Practical Reasoning -- 7.5. Some Hortatory Remarks on the Protrepticus -- 7.6. Protrepticus 10: The Utility Argument -- 7.7. Is Aristotle's Protreptic Strategy Consistent? -- 8. The Third Wave: From Contemplating the Divine to Understanding the Human Good -- 8.1. Obstacles for Deriving Boundary Markers of the Human Good -- 8.2. The Protrepticus on Deriving Boundary Markers of the Human Good -- 8.3. Self-Awareness and Friendship's Limitations in the Nicomachean Ethics -- 8.4. Reflections of the Alcibiades in Aristotle -- 8.5. Contemplation and Awareness of the Good in Nicomachean Ethics X.7 -- 8 -- 9. The Anatomy of Aristotelian Virtue -- 9.1. Desiring Well between Beast and God -- 9.2. Temperance -- 9.3. Courage -- 9.4. Liberality and Proper Ambition -- 9.5. The Grand-Scale Virtues: Magnificence and Magnanimity -- 9.6. The Social Virtues: Good Temper, Friendliness, Truthfulness, Wittiness -- 9.7. Justice -- 9.8. Beastliness and Heroic Virtue -- 9.9. Is This Account Overly Systematized? -- 10. Some Concluding Reflections -- 10.1. Contemplating the Terrain from Above -- 10.2. The Necessity of Contemplation? -- 10.3. Aristotle on the Uselessness of a Platonic Idea of the Good -- 10.4. Aristotle's Remarks on the Sophoi -- 10.5. Sophia without a Prime Mover?.
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