Description
Summary: | A new account of Aristotle's Ethics, this book argues for the central importance of the concept of 'techne' or 'craft' in Aristotle's moral theory. Exploring the importance of 'techne' in the Platonic and pre-Platonic intellectual context in which Aristotle was writing, Tom Angier here shows that this concept has an important role in Aristotle's Ethics that has rarely been studied in Anglo-American scholarship. Through close-analysis of the primary texts, this book uses the focus on 'techne' to systematically critique and renew Aristotelian moral philosophy. Techne in Aristotle's 'Ethics' pro.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 176 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781441134714 1441134719 1472598032 9781472598035 1282947923 9781282947924 9786612947926 6612947926 9781441175144 1441175148 9781441178121 1441178120 |
Language: | English. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |