Aristotle Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 March 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

   By Gerard J Hughes

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Written by one of the most important founding figures of Western philosophy, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics represents a critical point in the study of ethics which has influenced the direction of modern philosophy. The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics introduces the major...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective

   Edited by Julia Peters

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   By bringing together influential critics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics and some of the strongest defenders of an Aristotelian approach, this collection provides a fresh assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Aristotelian virtue ethics and its contemporary interpretations. Contributors...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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