Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy

Download or read book Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy written by Claudia Baracchi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy, Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. Referring to a broad range of texts from the Aristotelian corpus, Baracchi shows how the theoretical is always informed by a set of practices, and, specifically, how one's encounter with phenomena, the world, or nature in the broadest sense, is always a matter of ethos.