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Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics-that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence-found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called "the Philosopher." Drawing on their intimate knowledge of Aristotle's thought, Robert...
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La Ética a Nicómaco es una colección de textos de Aristóteles, destinados a ser leídos y discutidos en el Liceo, su escuela en Atenas. Examina la naturaleza de la virtud y el contenido de muchas de ellas, reflexiona sobre la felicidad, el placer y el dolor, y ofrece sobre todo un excelente tratado sobre la amistad. Esta selección recoge textos que gozan de vigencia universal tanto en el espacio como en el tiempo.
4) De Anima
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In “De Anima”, Aristotle seeks to uncover what separates the living from the dead. He steers a course between two extremes, with all of reality as nothing more than atoms on one side and the mind as independent from the body on the other side. Ultimately, he invents a third kind of position that views mental phenomena to be thoroughly dependent on, though not reducible to, physical events.
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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato. He taught Alexander the Great, and wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and...
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Aristotle is indisputably of central importance to the development of philosophical and scientific thought in the western world. Here he refers to three types of lives, the common life, the political life, and the contemplative life, to which he assigns the highest order. Certainly, this is the most difficult life. Similar to Socrates, Aristotle believed that 'the unexamined life is a life not worth living.'
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Combined in this volume are two works by Aristotle, On the Heavens and On Generation and Corruption. The first work, On the Heavens is Aristotle's cosmological treatise, in which Aristotle details his astronomical theories. The second work, On Generation and Corruption, is a work of science philosophy. Building upon his arguments in Physics, Aristotle poses the question as to whether or not the act of something coming into being is the result of a...
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El filósofo griego Aristóteles es considerado, al igual que Platón (de quien fue discípulo), pionero y padre de la filosofía occidental. Por lo sistemático de sus estudios, el rigor con el que los llevaba a cabo y la diversidad de los campos que abarcó, se considera también uno de los primeros investigadores científicos dentro del concepto moderno del término. Puede afirmarse que sus ideas han influenciado el pensamiento intelectual en occidente...
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Nicomachean Ethics moves beyond the purely theoretical analysis of moral philosophy by examining its practical application. It is one of the world's great books by Aristotle. Aristotle is well, known for the precision with which he chooses his words, and in this elegant translation, his work has found its ideal match. Aristotelian ethics is, concerned with how an individual should best live their life and at its core asserts the idea that the most...
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"Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive works on rhetoric that we possess. In it, we are asked: What is a good speech? What do popular audiences find persuasive? How does one compose a persuasive speech? Aristotle considers these questions in the context of the ancient Greek democratic city-state, in which large audiences of ordinary citizens listened to speeches pro...
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Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the importance of context to ethical behavior, and the ability of the virtuous person to recognize the best course of action. Aristotle argued that happiness and well being is the goal of life, and that a person's pursuit of such, rightly conceived, will result in virtuous conduct. "EVERY art and every inquiry, and...
13) Ética a nicómaco
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Parece claro que la felicidad es el fin último al que aspira la vida humana. Pero ¿cuál es la verdadera esencia de la felicidad? A esta espinosa cuestión se enfrenta Aristóteles (384 – 322 a. C.) en la Ética a Nicómaco.
Resultado de la selección realizada por su hijo Nicómaco con las notas que el propio autor utilizaba para sus lecciones en el Liceo, la obra resume las claves de la reflexión moral de su autor. Y aún más meritorio es...
14) Poetics
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The work "poetics" was created by Classical Greek polymath, known as the founder of classical logic, Aristotle (384-322 BC). Aristotle is the greatest of philosophers of the ancient world, whose authority was unshakeable in the Middle Ages too, when the church rejected all heritage of ancient Greece as a pagan one. In his philosophical conception there already were many elements of materialism.
15) The Metaphysics
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"All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge," declared Aristotle. The philosopher's works are foundational to the history of science, and his treatise on metaphysics, or "first philosophy," is divided into sections on previous philosophical thought and theories; a refutation of skepticism; a demonstration of God's existence; an examination of the relation of metaphysics to the other sciences; an elucidation of the nature of the infinite;...
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"El bien es el fin de todas las acciones del hombre" - Aristóteles
Aristóteles fue el filósofo más importante de la Antigua Grecia. Dividida en 10 libros, Ética a Nicómaco se basa en el concepto de felicidad. En esta obra, uno de los tratados más importantes de la filosofía occidental, Aristotéles expone sus reflexiones sobre el bien, la felicidad, la virtud, la templanza y las virtudes intelectuales.
Esta edición viene con notas,...
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Jonathan Barnes taught at the universities of Oxford, Geneva, and Paris-Sorbonne. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy and is the editor of The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation (Princeton). Anthony Kenny is a philosopher, former president of the British Academy, former master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, and the author of more than forty books, including A New History of Western Philosophy.
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18) On the Heavens
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THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be. For of things constituted by nature some are bodies and magnitudes, some possess body and magnitude, and some are principles of things which possess these. Now a continuum is that which is divisible into parts always capable of...
20) On the Soul
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Written in 350 BC, Aristotle's "De Anima" or "On the Soul" is not a work on spirituality, as the title would suggest, but rather a work that could be described as one of biopsychology, or a work on the subject of psychology from a biological perspective. Aristotle's exposition centers on the soul. Aristotle's soul however is not the same as the common modern spiritual conception of something distinct from the body that lives on past death. Rather...
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