Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy

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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. Such a 'modern' intimation can, thus, be found at the heart of Greek thought. Baracchi's book opens the way for a comprehensively reconfigured approach to classical Greek philosophy.

Claudia Baracchi is associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. The author of Of Myth, Life and War in Plato's Republic, she is the co-founder of the Ancient Philosophy Society.