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1 online resource (ix, 295 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Aristotle's Anthropology; 1 Is There Even Such a Thing?; 2 'Man Alone of All Animals': Aristotle on Continuity and Discontinuity; 3 The Transformation Thesis; 4 Overview; 4.1 Human Beings as Rational Animals; 4.2 Human Nature in the Light of Aristotle's Biology; 4.3 Aristotle's Moral Anthropology; 4.4 Aristotle's Political Anthropology; Part I Human Beings as Rational Animals; Chapter 1 Aristotle on the Definition of What It Is to Be Human |
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1 Does Aristotle Anywhere Define Human Being?2 Definition and Explanation; 3 The Idia of Human Beings and Their Explanatory Order; 4 Are Human Beings the Subject Matter of a Single Theoretical Science?; 5 Why Is Nous Divine?; 6 There Cannot Be a Complete Definition of What It Is to Be Human; Chapter 2 Speech and the Rational Soul; Chapter 3 Aristotle's Peculiarly Human Psychology; 1 Peculiarly Non-Rational; 2 Peculiarly Rational; 3 Conclusion; Chapter 4 The Planetary Nature of Mankind: A Cosmological Perspective on Aristotle's Anthropology |
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1 A Problem Concerning the Movement of Heavenly Bodies2 A Thought Experiment; 3 A Vivid Illustration of the General Scheme; 4 The General Scheme Applied to Sublunary Beings; 5 The General Scheme Applied to the Original Cosmological Puzzle; 6 The Divine Principle and the Limits of Analogy; 7 Anthropological Assumptions; 7.1 The Optimistic Perspective; 7.2 A Manifold of Actions; 7.3 The Need of Action; 7.4 Risk of Failure; 7.5 Complex Nature and Eudaimonia; Part II Human Nature in the Light of Aristotle's Biology; Chapter 5 Is Reason Natural?: Aristotle's Zoology of Rational Animals |
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1 Introduction2 Soul and the Science of Nature; 3 Why Nous is Not Natural; 4 The Zoological Inquiry into Human Beings; 4.1 Mankind as the Standard for the Order of Zoological Inquiry; 4.2 Zoology and the Study of Cognition; 5 The Biological Character of Aristotle's Politics; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 6 Spot the Differences!: The Hidden Philosophical Anthropology in Aristotle's Biological Writings; 1 'Man Is the Most Natural of All Beings': The Anthropocentric Background of Aristotle's Biology; 2 Aristotle's Biology as the Source of a Philosophical Anthropology? Three Possible Challenges |
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3 Meeting the Challenges: Essentialism, Gradualism, and Incompleteness Reconsidered4 Teleological Essentialism and Philosophical Anthropology in Aristotle; 5 Biological and Ethical Functions: Towards an Outline (typos) of Aristotle's Philosophical Anthropology; Chapter 7 Aristotle on the Anthropological Difference and Animal Minds; 1 Aristotle and Anthropology; 2 Aristotle and the Philosophy of Animal Minds; 3 The Aristotelian Hierarchy; 4 The Contours of 'Mind'; 5 What Abilities Can Do for the Philosophy of Mind; 6 Perception and Belief; 7 Seeing is Believing! |
| Summary |
The first collection of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
8 Additive vs. Transformative Theories |
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Print version record |
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Aristotle
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| SUBJECT |
Aristotle fast |
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Philosophical anthropology.
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philosophical anthropology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Philosophical anthropology
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Keil, Geert, editor
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Kreft, Nora, editor
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| ISBN |
9781108136822 |
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1108136826 |
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9781108131643 |
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1108131646 |
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