Evil in Aristotle by Pavlos Kontos [Book Review]

Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (2):342-343 (2019)
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This is the first volume devoted to Aristotle's thoughts on evil or badness. The work calls attention to several relatively neglected areas of scholarship, and the contributions give any reader grounds for thinking that Aristotle has thoughts about to kakon that are sophisticated and worthy of deep philosophical engagement.The volume is divided into three parts: metaphysics and biology in the first, practical philosophy in the second, and the "presence of Aristotle in post-Aristotelian philosophy" in the third. The topics vary widely—deformed animal kinds, the worst constitutions, the subhuman vice of brutishness, the misfortunes of the virtuous etc.—but the volume presents no clear philosophical...

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Aristotle on Enduring Evils While Staying Happy.Marta Jimenez - 2018 - In Pavlos Kontos (ed.), Evil in Aristotle. Cambridge University Press. pp. 150-169.
Evil in Aristotle.Pavlos Kontos (ed.) - 2018 - Cambridge University Press.
Badness as Posteriority to Capacity in Metaphysics Theta 9.Jonathan Beere - 2018 - In Pavlos Kontos (ed.), Evil in Aristotle. Cambridge University Press. pp. 32-50.
Good and Bad in Aristotle.C. D. C. Reeve - 2018 - In Pavlos Kontos (ed.), Evil in Aristotle. Cambridge University Press. pp. 17-31.
The Political Kakon.Richard Kraut - 2018 - In Pavlos Kontos (ed.), Evil in Aristotle. Cambridge University Press. pp. 170-188.

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