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This volume provides a thorough introduction to three of the
twentieth century’s most influential proponents of Aristotle’s
moral philosophy. Arthur Madigan’s Contemporary Aristotelian
Ethics examines the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum,
and Robert Spaemann in the context of twentieth-century
Anglo-American moral philosophy. By surveying the ways in which
these three philosophers appropriate Aristotle, Madigan illustrates
two important points: first, that the most pressing problems in
contemporary moral philosophy can be addressed using the
Aristotelian tradition and, second, that the Aristotelian tradition
does not speak with one voice. Madigan demonstrates that
Aristotelian moral philosophy is divided on important issues, such
as the value of liberal modernity, the character and provenance of
our current moral landscape, and the role of nature in
Aristotle’s ethics. Through his examination of MacIntyre,
Nussbaum, and Spaemann, Madigan offers a vision for the future of
Aristotelian moral philosophy, urging today’s philosophers to set
a clear educational agenda, to continue refining their concepts and
intuitions, and to engage with new conversation partners from other
philosophical traditions.
Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 consists of two chapters on methodology
flanking an important discussion of the impossibility of infinite
causal chains. The subject is vital for scientific method and for
theological belief in a first cause and in a beginning of the
universe. Philoponus later attacked Aristotle on this last point,
but Alexander presents Aristotle's view in a most favourable light.
In Metaphysics 3, Aristotle sets out what he sees as the central
problems of metaphysics. Alexander's commentary was subsequently
used by the Neoplatonists, two of whom have left their own
commentaries, so that Alexander's Aristotelian interpretation can
be compared with its rivals.
In Metaphysics 4 Aristotle discusses the nature of metaphysics, the
basic laws of logic, the falsity of subjectivism and the different
types of ambiguity. The full, clear commentary of Alexander of
Aphrodisias on this important book is here translated into English
by Arthur Madigan. Alexander goes through Aristotle's text
practically line by line, attending to the logical sequence of the
arguments, noting places where Aristotle's words will bear more
than one interpretation and marking variant readings. He repeatedly
cross-refers to the De Interpretatione, Analytics, Physics and
other works of Aristotle, thus placing Metaphysics 4 in the content
of Aristotle's philosophy as a whole.
In Jesuit Postmodern, Francis X. Clooney has gathered nine American
Jesuit scholars teaching at universities to reflect on their
scholarly work, why they engage in it, and how the work they do
coheres with their self-understanding as Jesuits. In accounts that
weave together scholarly lives and personal stories, the
contributors to this volume explore the irreducible diversity of
their experiences and criticize the dominant modern synthesis that
shaped Jesuit institutions of higher education from the 1960s to
the 1990s. While the contrapuntal display of voices enunciated in
this collection will unsettle the conventional and still dominant
ways of talking about Jesuits, scholarship, and religious
intellectual inquiry, Jesuit Postmodern does not end the
conversation, but pushes scholars to talk more critically and
imaginatively.
In Jesuit Postmodern, Francis X. Clooney has gathered nine American
Jesuit scholars teaching at universities to reflect on their
scholarly work, why they engage in it, and how the work they do
coheres with their self-understanding as Jesuits. In accounts that
weave together scholarly lives and personal stories, the
contributors to this volume explore the irreducible diversity of
their experiences and criticize the dominant modern synthesis that
shaped Jesuit institutions of higher education from the 1960s to
the 1990s. While the contrapuntal display of voices enunciated in
this collection will unsettle the conventional and still dominant
ways of talking about Jesuits, scholarship, and religious
intellectual inquiry, Jesuit Postmodern does not end the
conversation, but pushes scholars to talk more critically and
imaginatively.
Arthur Madigan presents a clear, accurate new translation of the third book (Beta) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with two related chapters from the eleventh book (Kappa). Madigan's accompanying introduction and commentary give detailed guidance to these texts, in which Aristotle sets out the main questions of metaphysics and assesses the main answers to them, and which serve as a useful introduction not just to Aristotle's own work on metaphysics but to classical metaphysics in general.
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