The first exhaustive study of Aristotle's concept of chance.

_The first exhaustive study of Aristotle's concept of chance._.

“Physical and Metaphysical Foundations of Aristotelian Ethics”. Leading scholars have regarded Aristotle’s ethics as a kind of dialectical reasoning based on popular opinions and without any sound philosophical foundation. In this paper I shall attempt to show, against them, that Aristotle’s ethics has a physical and a metaphysical foundation as well. Aristotle conceives of ethics metaphysically, given the centrality of his concept of God in his ethical thought. Furthermore, the conception of life behind it comes from his natural philosophy, specifically (...) from his concept of soul. (shrink)

Das Verhältnis von Ethik und Metaphysik ist seit langem ein wichtiger Gegenstand der Aristotelesinterpretation. Die vorliegende Studie greift diese Frage auf. Es soll anhand gründlicher Erklärungen einschlägiger Texte dargetan werden, wie nach Aristoteles die höchste Tätigkeit und das Glück des Menschen der Tätigkeit Gottes nachgebildet sind. Dabei werden Schlüsselbegriffe wie XXXXXX, XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX und XXXXXXXX eingehend untersucht.