In this extensively revised new edition of his excellent guidebook,
Christopher Shields introduces the whole of Aristotle's philosophy,
showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of
his thinking on the nature of the soul and the mind, ethics,
politics, and the arts. Beginning with a brief biography, Shields
carefully explains the fundamental elements of Aristotle's thought:
his explanatory framework, his philosophical methodology, and his
four-causal explanatory scheme. Subsequently he discusses
Aristotle's metaphysics, the theory of categories, logical theory,
and his conception of the human being as a composite of soul and
body. The last part concentrates on Aristotle's value theory as
applied to ethics and politics, and assesses his approach to
happiness, virtue, and the best life for human beings, before
turning to a consideration of Aristotle's theory of rhetoric and
the arts, with a special focus on his perennially controversial
treatment of tragedy. This second edition includes an expanded
discussion of Aristotle's method, and new sections on key issues in
perception, thought, akrasia, and mimesis. It concludes with an
expanded assessment of Aristotle's legacy, sketching currently
emerging Neo-Aristotelian movements in metaphysics and virtue
ethics.
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