Evil in Aristotle (Paperback)
Paperback 286 pages English Jan 09, 2020
(No reviews yet)
Write a Review
Write a Review
Cambridge University Press
Evil in Aristotle (Paperback)
Millions of titlesEvery book you're looking for
Carbon-neutral shippingFree on orders over $39.99
Fast shipping worldwideDelivered to your door
Aristotle's notion of evil is highly elaborate and attractive, yet has been largely overlooked by philosophers. While most recent studies of evil focus on modern understandings of the concept, this volume shows that Aristotle's theory is an invaluable resource for our contemporary understanding of it. Twelve leading scholars reconstruct the account of evil latent in Aristotle's metaphysics, biology, psychology, ethics, and politics, and detect Aristotelian patterns of thought that operate at certain landmark moments in the history of philosophy from ancient thought to modern day debates. The book pays particular attention to Aristotle's understanding of 'radical evil', an important and much disputed topic. Original and systematic, this study is the first to provide a full exploration of evil in Aristotle's work, shedding light on its content, potential, and influence. The volume will appeal to scholars of ancient Greek philosophy as well as to moral philosophers and to historians of philosophy.
- Author:
- Pavlos Kontos
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- Jan 09, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 286 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1316614158
- ISBN-13:
- 9781316614150