Virtues of Thought: Essays on Plato and Aristotle

336 Pages·2014·1.66 MB·English

by  Aryeh Kosman

virtues of thought

Virtues of thought
Essays on Plato and Aristotle
Aryeh Kosman
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, Eng land
2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kosman, Louis Aryeh.
[Essays. Selections]
Virtues of thought : essays on Plato and Aristotle / Aryeh Kosman.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-674-73080-9 (alk. paper)
1. Plato. 2. Aristotle. 3. Philosophy, Ancient. I. Title.
B395.K55 2013
184—dc23
2013030360
For Amélie Oksenberg Rorty

Contents
Introduction 1
1. Understanding, Explanation, and Insight in Aristotle’s
Posterior Analytics 7
2. Platonic Love 27
3. Perceiving That We Perceive: De Anima 3.2 43
4. Being Properly Affected: Virtues and Feelings
in Aristotle’s Ethics 62
5. Necessity and Explanation in Aristotle’s Analytics 77
6. Acting: Drama as the Mimesis of Praxis 94
7. What Does the Maker Mind Make? 119
8. Saving the Phenomena: Realism and Instrumentalism
in Aristotle’s Theory of Science 138
9. Aristotle on the Desirability of Friends 157
10. Justice and Virtue: The Republic’s Inquiry into
Proper Difference 183
11. Male and Female in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 204
12. Self- Knowledge and Self-C ontrol in Plato’s Charmides 227
13. Beauty and the Good: Situating the Kalon 246
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14. Translating Ousia 267
15. Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought 280
Notes 299
Index 319
virtues of thought