Practices of Reason: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

by C.D.C. Reeve

Book Overview

This book is an exploration of the epistemological, metaphysical, and psychological foundations of the Nicomachean Ethics. In a striking reversal of current orthodoxy, Reeve argues that scientific knowledge (episteme) is possible in ethics, that dialectic and understanding (nous) play essentially the same role in ethics as in an Aristotelian science, and that the distinctive role of practical wisdom (phronesis) is to use the knowledge of universals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198235658
• ISBN13: 9780198235651
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"