ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Finality Criterion

1. Introduction

2. What It Is to Be an Aristotelian Telos

3. Teleology in the Nicomachean Ethics

4. Teleology, Desire, and Middle-Level Ends

5. The Puzzle in NE I.7 and Two Possible Solutions

6. Ackrill’s Inclusivist Solution

The Self-Sufficiency of Happiness

1. Self-Sufficiency: Three Problems for a Monistic Reading of Eudaimonia

2. Self-Sufficiency as a Mark of Finality

3. Self-Sufficiency in the Philebus

4. The Self-Sufficiency of Monistic Goods

5. Choice worthiness and Self-Sufficiency

6. Self-Sufficient Happiness

Acting for the Sake of an Object of Love

1. Love and Final Causation in Aristotle’s Scientific Works

2. How Teleological Approximation Could Solve the Problem of Middle-Level Ends

3. Approximation in the Nicomachean Ethics?

Theoretical and Practical Reason

1. The Separateness and Similarity of Theoretical and Practical Reason

2. Theoretical Sophia versus Practical Wisdom

3. The Relationship of Phronêsis to Theoretical Wisdom

Moral Virtue and To Kalon

1. To Kalon Outside Human Action

2. To Kalon in Human Action

3. The Account of Fine Action at Rhetoric I.9

4. To Kalon and Spirited Desire

Courage, Temperance, and Greatness of Soul

1. Courage: NE III.6–9

2. Temperance: NE III.10–12

3. Greatness of Soul: NE IV.3

Two Happy Lives and Their Most Final Ends

1. The Competition between the Philosophical and Political Lives

2. The Superior Finality of Contemplation

3. Human Approximation of Divine Life: Part One

4. Human Approximation of Divine Life: Part Two

5. Choosing Moral Virtue for the Sake of Contemplation

Acting for Love in the Symposium

1. Possessing the Object of Love

2. The Intrinsic Value of Intermediate Objects of Love

General Index