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Selections seeks to provide an accurate and readable translation
that will allow the reader to follow Aristotle's use of crucial
technical terms and to grasp the details of his argument. Unlike
anthologies that combine translations by many hands, this volume
includes a fully integrated set of translations by a two-person
team. The glossary--the most detailed in any edition--explains
Aristotle's vocabulary and indicates the correspondences between
Greek and English words. Brief notes supply alternative
translations and elucidate difficult passages.
Terence Irwin's edition of the Nicomachean Ethics offers more aids
to the reader than are found in any modern English translation. It
includes an Introduction, headings to help the reader follow the
argument, explanatory notes on difficult or important passages, and
a full glossary explaining Aristotle's technical terms. The Third
Edition offers additional revisions of the translation as well as
revised and expanded versions of the notes, glossary, and
Introduction. Also new is an appendix featuring translated
selections from related texts of Aristotle.
Drawn from the translations and editorial aids of Irwin and Fine's
Aristotle, Selections (Hackett Publishing Co., 1995), this
anthology will be most useful to instructors who must try to do
justice to Aristotle in a semester-long ancient-philosophy survey,
but it will also be appropriate for a variety of introductory-level
courses. Introductory Readings provides accurate, readable, and
integrated translations that allow the reader to follow Aristotle's
use of crucial technical terms and to grasp the details of his
argument. Included are adaptations of the glossary and notes that
helped make its parent volume a singularly useful aid to the study
of Aristotle.
Drawn from the translations and editorial aids of Irwin and Fine's
Aristotle, Selections (Hackett Publishing Co., 1995), this
anthology will be most useful to instructors who must try to do
justice to Aristotle in a semester-long ancient-philosophy survey,
but it will also be appropriate for a variety of introductory-level
courses. Introductory Readings provides accurate, readable, and
integrated translations that allow the reader to follow Aristotle's
use of crucial technical terms and to grasp the details of his
argument. Included are adaptations of the glossary and notes that
helped make its parent volume a singularly useful aid to the study
of Aristotle.
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Selections seeks to provide an accurate and readable translation
that will allow the reader to follow Aristotle's use of crucial
technical terms and to grasp the details of his argument. Unlike
anthologies that combine translations by many hands, this volume
includes a fully integrated set of translations by a two-person
team. The glossary--the most detailed in any edition--explains
Aristotle's vocabulary and indicates the correspondences between
Greek and English words. Brief notes supply alternative
translations and elucidate difficult passages.
Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and
deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and
corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man
Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve
essays in the volume, written by leading classical philosophers,
investigate various aspects of these works of Plato, including the
significance of Plato's characters, Socrates's revolutionary
religious ideas, and the relationship between historical events and
Plato's texts. Readers will find their appreciation of Plato's
works greatly enriched by these essays.
Terence Irwin's edition of the Nicomachean Ethics offers more aids
to the reader than are found in any modern English translation. It
includes an Introduction, headings to help the reader follow the
argument, explanatory notes on difficult or important passages, and
a full glossary explaining Aristotle's technical terms. The Third
Edition offers additional revisions of the translation as well as
revised and expanded versions of the notes, glossary, and
Introduction. Also new is an appendix featuring translated
selections from related texts of Aristotle.
Terence Irwin presents a historical and critical study of the
development of moral philosophy over two thousand years, from
ancient Greece to the Reformation. Starting with the seminal ideas
of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, he guides the reader through the
centuries that follow, introducing each of the thinkers he
discusses with generous quotations from their works. He offers not
only careful interpretation but critical evaluation of what they
have to offer philosophically. This is the first of three volumes
which will examine the history of ethics in the Socratic tradition,
up to the late 20th century.
Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and
deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and
corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man
Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve
essays in the volume, written by leading classical philosophers,
investigate various aspects of these works of Plato, including the
significance of Plato's characters, Socrates's revolutionary
religious ideas, and the relationship between historical events and
Plato's texts. Readers will find their appreciation of Plato's
works greatly enriched by these essays.
Aristotle's reliance on dialectic as a method of philosophy appears
to conflict with his metaphysical realist view of his conclusions.
This book explores Aristotle's philosophical method and the merits
of his conclusions, and shows how he defends dialectic against the
objection that it cannot justify a metaphysical realist's claims.
The author does not presuppose extensive previous acquaintance with
Aristotle. Greek texts are translated, and Greek words
transliterated.
The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical
study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special
attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration,
criticism, and defence. It discusses the main topics of moral
philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the
human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the
methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will,
freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism,
subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. This
volume examines ancient and medieval philosophy up to the sixteenth
century; Volumes 2 and 3 will continue the story up to Rawls's
Theory of Justice.
The present volume begins with Socrates, the Cyrenaics and Cynics,
and Plato, and then offers a fuller account of Aristotle, stressing
the systematic naturalism of his position. The Stoic position is
compared with the Aristotelian at some length; Epicureans and
Sceptics are discussed more briefly. Chapters on early Christianity
and on Augustine introduce a fuller examination of Aquinas'
revision, elaboration, and defence of Aristotelian naturalism. The
volume closes with an account of some criticisms of the
Aristotelian outlook by Scotus, Ockham, Machiavelli, and some
sixteenth-century Reformers.
The emphasis of the book is not purely descriptive, narrative, or
exegetical, but also philosophical. Irwin discusses the comparative
merits of different views, the difficulties that they raise, and
how some of the difficulties might be resolved. The book tries to
present the leading moral philosophers of the past as participants
in a rational discussion that is still being carried on, and tries
to help the reader to participate in this discussion.
The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical
study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special
attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics
of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including:
the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality;
the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions;
will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism,
subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. This
volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the sixteenth to
the eighteenth century. Volume 3 will continue the story up to
Rawls's Theory of Justice. The present volume begins with Suarez's
interpretation of Scholastic moral philosophy, and examines
seventeenth- and eighteenth- century responses to the Scholastic
outlook, to see how far they constitute a distinctively different
conception of moral philosophy. The treatments of natural law by
Grotius, Hobbes, Cumberland, and Pufendorf are treated in some
detail. Disputes about moral facts, moral judgments, and moral
motivation, are traced through Cudworth, Clarke, Balguy, Hutcheson,
Hume, Price, and Reid. Butler's defence of a naturalist account of
morality is examined and compared with the Aristotelian and
Scholastic views discussed in Volume 1. The volume ends with a
survey of the persistence of voluntarism in English moral
philosophy, and a brief discussion of the contrasts and connexions
between Rousseau and earlier views on natural law. The emphasis of
the book is not purely descriptive, narrative, or exegetical, but
also philosophical. Irwin discusses the comparative merits of
different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of
the difficulties might be resolved. The book tries to present the
leading moral philosophers of the past as participants in a
rational discussion that is still being carried on, and tries to
help the reader to participate in this discussion.
This book is a selective historical and critical study of moral
philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to
Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral
philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the
human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the
methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will,
freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism,
subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. The
first volume discusses ancient and mediaeval moral philosophy. The
second volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the 16th
to the 18th century. This third volume continues the story up to
Rawls's Theory of Justice. A comparison between the Kantian and the
Aristotelian outlook is one central theme of the third volume. The
chapters on Kant compare Kant both with his rationalist and
empiricist predecessors and with the Aristotelian naturalist
tradition. Reactions to Kant are traced through Hegel,
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. Utilitarian and idealist
approaches to Kantian and Aristotelian views are traced through
Sidgwick, Bradley, and Green. Mill and Sidgwick provide a link
between 18th-century rationalism and sentimentalism and the
20th-century debates in the metaphysics and epistemology of
morality. These debates are explored in Moore, Ross, Stevenson,
Hare, C.I. Lewis, Heidegger, and in some more recent meta-ethical
discussion. This volume concludes with a discussion of Rawls, with
special emphasis on a comparison of his position with
utilitarianism, intuitionism, Kantianism, naturalism, and idealism.
Since this book seeks to be not only descriptive and exegetical,
but also philosophical, it discusses the comparative merits of
different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of
the difficulties might be resolved. It presents the leading moral
philosophers of the past as participants in a rational discussion
in which the contemporary reader can participate.
This Oxford Reader seeks to introduce some of the main philosophical questions first raised by the Greek philosophers of classical antiquity. Selections from the writings of ancient philosophers are interspersed with Terence Irwin's incisive commentary, and occasionally with contributions from modern philosophers . The arrangement of the book is thematic, rather than chronological, allowing the reader to focus on philosophical problems and ideas, but a general introduction places philosophers and schools within their historical context. Irwin brings together contributions which shaped debates about knowledge, freedom, ethics, politics, and religious belief -- debates which continue to be contested today, 2500 years from their conception.
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