
Happy Lives and the Highest Good
Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues--courage and generosit...
Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues--courage and generosit...