Aristotle on Human Nature

Exploring Aristotle''s concept of logos , this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing that it is the organizing principle of human life itself. Tracing its multiple meanings in different contexts, including reason, logic, speech, ratio, account, and form, contributors highlight the ways in which we can see logos in human thinking, in the organizing principles of our bodies, in our perception of the world, in our social and political life, and through our productive and fine arts. Through this focus, logos reveals itself not as one feature amongst others, but instead as the feature that organizes all others, from the most "animal" to the most "spiritual." By presenting logos in this way, readers gain a complex account of the philosophy of human nature.>

Préface

Explores Aristotle's concept of logos in relation to human nature and its place in the history of philosophy.

Auteur

Gregory Kirk is Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Northern Arizona University, USA.

Joseph Arel teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Southern Maine, USA.

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Exploring Aristotle's concept of logos, this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing that it is the organizing principle of human life itself.

Tracing its multiple meanings in different contexts, including reason, logic, speech, ratio, account, and form, contributors highlight the ways in which we can see logos in human thinking, in the organizing principles of our bodies, in our perception of the world, in our social and political life, and through our productive and fine arts. Through this focus, logos reveals itself not as one feature amongst others, but instead as the feature that organizes all others, from the most "animal" to the most "spiritual." By presenting logos in this way, readers gain a complex account of the philosophy of human nature.

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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The Logos of Logos

1. Language, Logic and Metaphysics: The Being with Logos and the Logos of Being
   John Russon and Ömer Aygün
   Part II. The Logos of Phusis
2. For there are gods here too: EmbodiedEssence, Two-Footedness, and the Animal with Logos
   Eli Diamond
3. The Significance of Self-Nourishment: Aristotle's De Anima II.4
   Greg Recco
4. Flesh as Logos
   Rebecca Steiner Goldner
5. Perception, Thought, and Error in Aristotle's De Anima
   Whitney Howell
6. Actuality in the First Sense and the Question of Human Nature in Aristotle
   John Russon
   Part III. The Logos of Ethos
7. Wishful Thinking in Aristotle
   Ömer Aygün
8. The Dissociative Power of Logos in Taking Account of Oneself
   Gregory Kirk
9. Aristotle on the Rationality of Virtue
   Eve Rabinoff
10. Learning how to be at Leisure through Musical Education
    Jacob Singer
    Part IV. The Logos of the Polis
11. The Vicissitudes of Logos: On Nature, Character and Time-of-Life
    Robert Metcalf
12. Practical Logos in Aristotle's Ethics, Rhetoric and Politics
    Fred Guerin
13. The Movement of Political Animals
    Joseph Arel
14. Aristotle: The Politics of Life and the Life of Politics
    Walter Brogan
15. Logos and the Polis in the Poetics
    Patricia Fagan

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Index