Starting with Practical Reason in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics VI 1: About the Object of the Calculative Part of the Soul.
This article is about the object of the calculative part of the rational soul, as it is characterized in Nicomachean Ethics VI 1. Lines 1139a6–8 are usually read as claiming that the calculative part deals with the contingent. I argue for another reading of these crucial lines, according to which th...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 120; no. 1; pp. 1 - 21 |
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