Aristotle

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Title:

Aristotle

Author:

Shields, Christopher John.

ISBN:

9780415283311

9780415283328

9780203961940

Personal Author:

Shields, Christopher John.

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Physical Description:

xvi, 456 p. ; 22 cm.

Series:

Routledge philosophers

Routledge philosophers.

Series Title:

Routledge philosophers

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

1. Aristotle : life and works -- 2. Explaining nature and the nature of explanation -- 3. Thinking -- 4. Aristotle's early ontology -- 5. Puzzles of nature -- 6. Substance and the science of being qua being -- 7. Living beings -- 8. Living well -- 9. Political association -- 10. Rhetoric and the arts -- 11. Aristotle's legacy.

Personal Subject:

Aristotle.

Subject Term:

Philosophy, Ancient.

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Summary

In this excellent introduction, Christopher Shields introduces and assesses the whole of Aristotle's philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the mind, ethics, politics and the arts.

Beginning with a brief biography, Christopher Shields carefully explains the fundamental elements of Aristotle's thought: his explanatory framework, his philosophical methodology and his four-causal explanatory scheme. Subsequently he discusses Aristotle's metaphysics and the theory of categories and logical theory and his conception of the human being and soul and body.

In the last part, he concentrates on Aristotle's value theory as applied to ethics and politics, and assesses his approach to happiness, virtues and the best life for human beings. He concludes with an appraisal of Aristotelianism today.