Aristotle Books

New and Published Books

1. The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics

   Virtues and Gifts

   By Andrew Pinsent

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues. Yet, despite the availability of these texts (and centuries of commentary), Aquinas’s virtue ethics remains mysterious, leaving readers with many unanswered questions. In this book, Pinsent argues that the key...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
2. Aristotle

   By John B. Morrall

   First published in 1977 this volume is the only account published in English in the 20th century to be exclusively devoted to an interpretation of Aristotle's political thought (as distinct from commentaries, translations and works on Aristotelean philosophy in general). It places Aristotle in his...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered

   Phenomenological Ethics

   By Pavlos Kontos

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Politics

   By Jean Roberts

   Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

   Aristotle's Politics is widely acknowledged as a classic and one of the founding texts of political theory and philosophy. Written by a leading expert in ancient philosophical thought, Aristotle and the Politics is a coherent guide that makes sense of an often difficult and disorganized work,...

   Published April 2nd 2009 by Routledge
5. Aristotle

   By Christopher Shields

   Series: The Routledge Philosophers

   In this excellent introduction, Christopher Shields introduces and assesses the whole of Aristotle’s philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the mind, ethics, politics and the arts. Beginning with a brief biography,...

   Published April 4th 2007 by Routledge
6. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Aristotle on Ethics

   By Gerard Hughes

   Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

   Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most important texts in western philosophy, and arguably the most influential text on contemporary moral theory.This GuideBook introduces and assesses:* Aristotle's life and the background to the Nicomachean Ethics* The ideas and text of the Nicomachean...

   Published April 11th 2001 by Routledge
7. Aristotle

   Critical Assessments

   Edited by Lloyd P. Gerson

   Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

   The works of Aristotle are central to the Western philosophical tradition, and scholarship on Aristotle, especially in English, has burgeoned enormously in the last forty years. Aristotle: Critical Assessments collects together articles on Aristotle's philosophy otherwise scattered over many...

   Published May 12th 1999 by Routledge
8. Aristotle

   2nd Edition

   By David Ross

   Sir David Ross was one of the most distinguished and influential Aristotelians of this century; his study has long been established as an authoritative survey of the life, work and philosophy of Aristotle.This clear and lucid account contains useful summaries of theories and arguments, with brief,...

   Published April 26th 1995 by Routledge