.... Consider first the puzzle. Referencing influential work by Andrea Wilson Nightingale, Kathleen V. Wilkes, and Thomas Nagel, Walker suggests that there is, intuitively, something odd about the view that contemplation could be the highest human good while being “troublingly inert and detached from the rest...

...Thomas Williams Van Nieuwenhove Rik , Thomas Aquinas and Contemplation . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . ix + 220 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Everybody knows (for the relevant value of ‘everybody’) that, for Thomas Aquinas, perfect happiness consists...

...Stephen S. Bush Nicomachean Ethics presents a puzzle as to whether Aristotle views morally virtuous activity as happiness, as book 1 seems to indicate, or philosophical contemplation as happiness, as book 10 seems to indicate. The most influential attempts to resolve this issue have been either...

..., but for the sake of living well. So any component of the polis that is necessary must be necessary, ultimately, for allowing and enabling human beings to achieve their highest end, which we know to be theoretical contemplation from Nicomachean Ethics 10. Thus Segev's thesis is that traditional religion, with its...

... to conflict with what Brentano goes on to say in his letter to Marty: “It has never been my view that immanent object is identical with ‘ object of thought ’ ( vorgestelltes Objekt ). What we think about is the object or thing not the ‘object of thought’. If…we contemplate a horse, our thought has...

... a strong impression in the reader s mind. Kupperman s substantive views about value are pluralistic. He holds that (with qualifications) pain and suffering are bad and bliss good; many call these subjective values. But he also affirms objective or perfectionist values such as theoretical contemplation...

... for clear and distinct foundational principles on which to base all scientific knowl- edge was decisively shaped by his discovery in Augustine of a way of ac- quiring wisdom contrary to the philosophical techniques of scholastic Ar- istotelianism. This way is essentially contemplative: its...

... a promising new approach to interpreting Plato's dialogues. If spirit is always the “obedient helper” of reason (166), then one might worry that spirit does not play a distinctive role in Plato's moral psychology. Kamtekar responds to this objection by noting that reason has two jobs, contemplating...

... gives pride of place to the Aristotelian virtues of character, highlights the relationship between justice and friendship, and provides an account of moral development, giving a taxonomy of different types of people. He also argues for a novel view of contemplation as reflecting and concentrating...

... the exercise of a virtue, and we contemplate this in isolation from any contingently valu- able accompaniments, we find that we value it nonetheless. Like- wise, contemplating the exercise of a vice, while ignoring any con- tingently associated value, yields a negative assessment. This evinces...

... in a world where people were incapable of deriving any pleasure from aesthetic contemplation. It seems to me that the aesthetic domain of value is detachable from the prudential. And it seems that the epistemic is too. Or it seems that way to me. So who is right—the pragmatist or the evidentialist? I'm...

... thought is concerned inescapably with the being of the thinker, rather than seeking an objective, detached state of contemplation of abstract realities. On the other, Heidegger's Aristotle regards the human being and his or her existence as a legitimate end in itself, while his Augustine does not. Coyne...

... of the philosopher. Above all, Bacon wished to recast phi- losophy as an endeavor that was active rather than contemplative, while at the same time renewing the moral imperatives behind the philosopher’s function in society. In addition (and not unrelatedly), Bacon projected a philosophy— more specifically...

... novelties look as if they cannot be redeemed in point mass terms and appear to demand “forces” of a different color than we had originally contemplated. Standard histories of physics commonly increase our confusions further. Moralizing accounts (such as the René Dugas volumes upon which Sklar heavily...

... with Porphyry (32–33). Though, strikingly, Porphyry's report that he contemplated suicide and that Plotinus advised him against it ( Porphyry 1991 , sec. 11) is omitted. Yet, the most fascinating part of chapter 1 is Gertz's exposition of Olympiodorus's stance on suicide (33–50): Olympiodorus gives three...

... wants to deny that this effect must be achieved in certain ways, but exactly which ways is less clear; what we don’t need to have is variously described as intellectual grasp, intellectual apprehension, reflective awareness, contemplative grasp, conscious cognition, or articulate representation...

... of happi- ness in the Nicomachean Ethics and his attempt to apply Aristotle’s twofold ideal of happiness (contemplation, the good practical life) to religious life. Kenny distinguishes between four different approaches that Aquinas adopts, depend- ing on whether he is writing as an Aristotelian...

... in between the many and the few, who cannot advance to full-scale understanding, but who might be more prevalent in the ideal state. But, Scott adds, while these people would be able to follow the political middle route, they may not be able to follow the ethical one because, being incapable of contemplation...

..., Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, and Leibniz. This line, Schneewind argues, lapses due to its reciprocal failure to locate a source of ethical motivation in the contemplation of quasi-divine moral ideas (167-259). Part 3, “Toward a World on Its Own,” then forms something of an interlude, tracing...

... positive view recognizes the idea of acting with an intention as something that cannot be reduced along the lines contemplated by the causalist. He follows George Wilson’s sophisticated articulation of this view in terms of de re intentions3 But Cleveland says little about what can be 3George...