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Aristotle on the Scope of Practical Reason - Spectators, Legislators, Hopes, and Evils (Hardcover)
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Aristotle on the Scope of Practical Reason - Spectators, Legislators, Hopes, and Evils (Hardcover)
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This book offers a new account of Aristotle's practical philosophy.
Pavlos Kontos argues that Aristotle does not restrict practical
reason to its action-guiding and motivational role; rather,
practical reason remains practical in the full sense of the term
even when its exercise does not immediately concern the guidance of
our present actions. To elucidate why this wider scope of practical
reason is important, Kontos brings into the foreground five
protagonists that have long been overlooked: (a) spectators or
judges who make non-motivational judgments about practical matters
that do not interact with their present deliberations and actions;
(b) legislators who exercise practical reason to establish
constitutions and laws; (c) hopes as an active engagement with
moral luck and its impact on our individual lives; (d) prayers as
legislators' way to deal with the moral luck hovering around the
birth of constitutions and the prospect of a utopia; and (e) people
who are outsiders or marginal cases of the responsibility community
because they are totally deprived of practical reason. Building on
a wide range of interpretations of Aristotle's practical philosophy
(from the ancient commentators to contemporary analytic and
continental philosophers), Kontos offers new insights about
Aristotle's philosophical contribution to the current debates about
radical evil, moral luck, hope, utopia, internalism and
externalism, and the philosophy of law. Aristotle on the Scope of
Practical Reason will appeal to researchers and advanced students
interested in Aristotle's ethics, ancient philosophy, and the
history of practical philosophy.
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