Aristotle's Discovery of the Human: Piety and Politics in the Nicomachean Ethics

by Mary P Nichols

Book Overview

Aristotle's Discovery of the Human offers a fresh, illuminating, and accessible analysis of one of the Western philosophical tradition's most important texts.

In Aristotle's Discovery of the Human, noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols explores the ways in which Aristotle brings the gods and the divine into his "philosophizing about human affairs" in his Nicomachean Ethics. Her analysis shows that, for Aristotle,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268205469
• ISBN13: 9780268205461
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 356 Pages