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05099aam a2200397 i 4500 001 67A8153C462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 171114t20182018enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017048765 020 $a 1108421105 020 $a 9781108421102 035 $a (OCoLC)1013588631 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d GUA $d YUS $d CHVBK $d EAU $d OCLCO $d U3G $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a B485 $b .W28 2018 082 00 $a 185 $2 23 100 1 $a Walker, Matthew D., $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Aristotle on the uses of contemplation / $c Matthew D. Walker, Yale-NUS College. 264 1 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a x, 261 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $g 10.5. $t Sophia without a Prime Mover?. $g 1.1. $t An Introduction to the Utility Question -- $g 1.2. $t Some Matters of Method -- $g 1.3. $t A Quick Stroll down the Peripatos -- $g 2. $t Useless Contemplation as an Ultimate End -- $g 2.1. $t Rereading the Nicomachean Ethics' Opening Chapters -- $g 2.2. $t Life-Activity "According to the Best and Most Complete" Virtue -- $g 2.3. $t Sophia as the Highest Virtue in Nicomachean Ethics VI -- $g 2.4. $t The Nature and Objects of Sophia and Contemplation -- $g 2.5. $t Contemplation, Uselessness, and Leisureliness -- $g 3. $t The Threptic Basis of Living -- $g 3.1. $t Why Examine the Nutritive Basis of Life? -- $g 3.2. $t Aristotle on the Parts of Soul -- $g 3.3. $t Understanding the Threptikon: The Metaphysics of Mortal Beings -- $g 3.4. $t The Threptikon as Nutritive -- $g 3.5. $t The Threptikon as Reproductive -- $g 4. $t Authoritative Functions, Ultimate Ends, and the Good for Living Organisms -- $g 4.1. $t Threptic Subservience to the Aisthetikon -- $g 4.2. $t Perceptive Guidance and the "Nature Does Nothing in Vain" Principle -- $g 4.3. $t A Puzzle about Nutrition and Perception -- $g 4.4. $t "Living by" an Authoritative Function and Living Well -- $g 4.5. $t Divine Approximation, Persistence and Activity, and the Good -- $g 5. $t The Utility Question Restated -- and How Not to Address It -- $g 5.1. $t From Perception to Contemplative Nous -- and the Utility Question -- $g 5.2. $t Two Initial Responses to the Utility Question -- $g 5.3. $t A Deeper Response to the Utility Question: Nous and Nonnaturalism? -- $g 5.4. $t Nous and Nature in On the Parts of Animals -- $g 5.5. $t Nous and Nature in De Anima and Problems -- $g 5.6. $t Nicomachean Ethics X.7-8: The Separability and Divinity of Nous -- $g 5.7. $t Three Problems to Consider -- $g 6. $t The First Wave: Reason, Desire, and Threptic Guidance in the Harmonized Soul -- $g 6.1. $t Epithumia -- $g 6.2. $t Thumos -- $g 6.3. $t Reason, Ethical Virtue, and the Regulation of Nonrational Desire -- $g 6.4. $t Psychic Harmony, the Human Good, and Self-Maintenance -- $g 6.5. $t Ethical Vice and Impaired Threptic Prospects -- $g 6.6. $t Reason -- Or Practical Reason? -- $g 7. $t The Second Wave: Complete Virtue and the Utility of Contemplation -- $g 7.1. $t Does Sophia Possess More than Formal Utility? -- $g 7.2. $t Aristotle on Ethical Development: From the "That" to the "Why" -- $g 7.3. $t Theoretical Understanding as a Condition for Complete Virtue -- $g 7.4. $t Theoretical Understanding and Horoi for Practical Reasoning -- $g 7.5. $t Some Hortatory Remarks on the Protrepticus -- $g 7.6. $t Protrepticus 10: The Utility Argument -- $g 7.7. $t Is Aristotle's Protreptic Strategy Consistent? -- $g 8. $t The Third Wave: From Contemplating the Divine to Understanding the Human Good -- $g 8.1. $t Obstacles for Deriving Boundary Markers of the Human Good -- $g 8.2. $t The Protrepticus on Deriving Boundary Markers of the Human Good -- $g 8.3. $t Self-Awareness and Friendship's Limitations in the Nicomachean Ethics -- $g 8.4. $t Reflections of the Alcibiades in Aristotle -- $g 8.5. $t Contemplation and Awareness of the Good in Nicomachean Ethics X.7 -- 8 -- $g 9. $t The Anatomy of Aristotelian Virtue -- $g 9.1. $t Desiring Well between Beast and God -- $g 9.2. $t Temperance -- $g 9.3. $t Courage -- $g 9.4. $t Liberality and Proper Ambition -- $g 9.5. $t The Grand-Scale Virtues: Magnificence and Magnanimity -- $g 9.6. $t The Social Virtues: Good Temper, Friendliness, Truthfulness, Wittiness -- $g 9.7. $t Justice -- $g 9.8. $t Beastliness and Heroic Virtue -- $g 9.9. $t Is This Account Overly Systematized? -- $g 10. $t Some Concluding Reflections -- $g 10.1. $t Contemplating the Terrain from Above -- $g 10.2. $t The Necessity of Contemplation? -- $g 10.3. $t Aristotle on the Uselessness of a Platonic Idea of the Good -- $g 10.4. $t Aristotle's Remarks on the Sophoi -- $g 10.5. $t Sophia without a Prime Mover?. 600 00 $a Aristotle. 600 07 $a Aristotle. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029885 600 07 $a Aristoteles $d v384-v322 $2 gnd 650 0 $a Contemplation. 650 0 $a Good and evil. 650 7 $a Contemplation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00876612 650 7 $a Good and evil. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00944894 650 7 $a Das BoÂse $2 gnd 650 7 $a Das Gute $2 gnd 650 7 $a Kontemplation $2 gnd 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017024636.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=67A8153C462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search