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A Person as a Lifetime - Stephanie M. Semler

A Person as a Lifetime

An Aristotelian Account of Persons
Buch | Hardcover
168 Seiten
2016
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9845-2 (ISBN)
CHF 144,90 inkl. MwSt
This book is of interest to anyone reading Aristotle, from beginners to specialists, and also to all those who are interested in the set of metaphysical problems surrounding persons.
Is it possible to derive a viable definition of persons from Aristotle’s work? In A Person as a Lifetime: An Aristotelian Account of Persons, Stephanie M. Semler argues that we can. She finds the component parts of this definition in his writing on ethics and metaphysics, and the structure of this working definition is that of an entire lifetime. If J.O. Urmson is right that “[t]o call somebody a eudaimon is to judge his life as a whole,” then a Greek, and by extension an Aristotelian account of personhood would be a description of an entire human life. Likewise, the evaluation of that life would have to be done at its termination.

The concept of persons is at least as much a moral one as it is a metaphysical one. For this reason, Semler contends that an important insight about persons is to be found in Aristotle’s ethical works. The significance of judging one to be a eudaimon is in understanding that the life is complete—that is, it has a beginning, middle, and an end, with the same person at the helm for the duration. If we know what Aristotle’s requirements are for a human lifetime is to have all of these features, it follows that we can derive an Aristotelian concept of persons from it. We find the benefit of such an investigation when the difficulties with issues surrounding personal identity seem to indicate that either personal identity must inhere in the physical body of a person, or that, on pain of a view that resembles dualism, it simply doesn’t exist.

A Person as a Lifetime will be of particular interest to students and scholars of philosophy, history, classics, and psychology, and to anyone with an interest in Aristotle.

Stephanie Semler is associate professor of philosophy at Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun.

Chapter 1: Aristotelian Persons I
Chapter 2: Moral Significance
Chapter 3: Rationality: Pleasure and Practical Reasoning
Chapter 4: Rationality: Friendship and the Three Lives
Chapter 5: Aristotelian Persons II

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 239 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10 0-7391-9845-9 / 0739198459
ISBN-13 978-0-7391-9845-2 / 9780739198452
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