01873nam a2200169Ia 4500 230822s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97805200812530520081250 eng B491.E7 .A53 1994 Anagnostopoulos, Georgios Aristotle on the goals and exactness of ethics / Georgios Anagnostopoulos Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994 xiii, 468 p. ; 23 cm. Aristotle's Intentions. Outline, Lack of Detail, and the Goals of Ethics. The Possibility of Attaining Exact Accounts. Epistemological Consequences of Exact/Inexact Accounts. Aristotle's Assumptions -- 6. Being for the Most Part: Its Meaning, Scope, and Nature. The Evidence and Its Meaning. The Scope of Fluctuation or Being for the Most Part. The Nature of Being for the Most Part. Being for the Most Part and Its Proper Contrast -- 7. Demonstration and What Is for the Most Part. The Core Meaning of Demonstration. The Limits of the Spectrum of Demonstration. Soft, Weak, or Inexact Demonstrations. Validity and Syllogisms About What Is for the Most Part. Making Aristotle's Remarks Consistent. Eliminating Formal Inexactness -- 8. Variation, Indefiniteness, and Exactness. The Evidence and Its Meaning. Aristotle's Target. Consequences of Indefiniteness or Variation. Eliminating Indefiniteness or Variation -- 9. Exactness and Pragmatics. The Evidence and Its Meaning. Questions, Methods, and Exactness. Goals and Proofs. Goals and the Proper Degree of Exactness. Proper Exactness and the Fixity of Goals -- 10. Exactness, Universality, and Truth. The Universal, Practice, and Practical Knowledge. Universality and Ethical Theory. Inexactness and Truth -- Index of Passages from Aristotle's Works -- Index of Key Greek Words. Aristotle Ethics.Aristote Morale.Aristotle. 45865 45865