- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Making Sense of My Life as a Whole -
2 The Virtues -
3 Nature and Naturalism -
4 A ristotle: Nature and Mere Nature -
5 TheS toics: Human Nature and the Point of View of the Universe -
6 A ntiochus: The Intuitive View -
7 TheE picureans: Rethinking What Is Natural -
8 TheS ceptics: Accepting What Is Natural -
9 Uses of Nature -
10 The Good of Others -
11 Finding Room for Other‐Concern -
12 Self‐Concern and the Sources and Limits of Other‐Concern -
13 Justice -
14 Self‐Interest and Morality -
15 Happiness, Success and What Matters -
16 E picurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time -
17 TheS ceptics: Untroubledness Without Belief -
18 A ristotle: An Unstable View -
19 T heophrastus and theS toics: Forcing the Issue -
20 A ristotelian Responses -
21 Happiness and the Demands of Virtue -
22 Morality, Ancient and Modern - Cast of Characters
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Aristotle: Nature and Mere Nature
Aristotle: Nature and Mere Nature
- Chapter:
- (p.142) 4 Aristotle: Nature and Mere Nature
- Source:
- The Morality of Happiness
- Author(s):
Julia Annas (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Aristotle argues that the virtues develop from nature as matter (mere nature) to nature as form, an ideal. Nature is also, however, what is ‘always or for the most part’. These points are linked to Aristotle's controversial uses of nature in discussing the city‐state, slavery, and moneymaking; on this issue, his arguments are inconsistent.
Keywords: Aristotle, city‐state, ideal, nature, slavery
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- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Making Sense of My Life as a Whole -
2 The Virtues -
3 Nature and Naturalism -
4 A ristotle: Nature and Mere Nature -
5 TheS toics: Human Nature and the Point of View of the Universe -
6 A ntiochus: The Intuitive View -
7 TheE picureans: Rethinking What Is Natural -
8 TheS ceptics: Accepting What Is Natural -
9 Uses of Nature -
10 The Good of Others -
11 Finding Room for Other‐Concern -
12 Self‐Concern and the Sources and Limits of Other‐Concern -
13 Justice -
14 Self‐Interest and Morality -
15 Happiness, Success and What Matters -
16 E picurus: Virtue, Pleasure and Time -
17 TheS ceptics: Untroubledness Without Belief -
18 A ristotle: An Unstable View -
19 T heophrastus and theS toics: Forcing the Issue -
20 A ristotelian Responses -
21 Happiness and the Demands of Virtue -
22 Morality, Ancient and Modern - Cast of Characters
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index Locorum
- General Index
