16482

,

essays on metaphysics and ethics

Sarah Broadie

Cambridge University Press,

x, 203 p. , 24 cm.

Affecting and being affected -- Backwards causation and continuing -- From necessity to fate : an inevitable step -- Alternative world-histories -- A contemporary look at Aristotleʹs changing now -- Nature and craft in Aristotelian teleology -- Soul and body in Plato and Descartes -- Aristotle and contemporary ethics -- On the idea of the summum bonum -- What should we mean by ʹthe highest goodʹ? -- The good of practical beings : Aristotelian perspectives -- Taking stock of leisure.

B

72

.B69

2007

9780521870245 (hardback : alk. paper) ,

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.

2007