Action, Contemplation, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle

by C.D.C. Reeve

The notion of practical wisdom is one of Aristotle's greatest inventions. It has inspired philosophers as diverse as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Thompson, and John McDowell. Now a leading scholar of ancient philosophy offers a challenge to received accounts of practical wisdom by situating it in the larger context of Aristotle's views on knowledge and reality.

That happiness is the end pursued by practical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674063732
• ISBN13: 9780674063730
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"