Aristotle on the Perfect Life

by Anthony Kenny

Book Overview

Aristotle's teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical debate in recent years; it is of vital importance to the question of the relevance of his ethics in the present day. Aristotle's admirers struggle to read a comprehensive account of the supreme happiness into the Nicomachean Ethics; Kenny argues that those who are prepared to take the neglected Eudemian Ethics seriously preserve their admiration intact without...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198236034
• ISBN13: 9780198236030
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"