Contents
Preface page ix
1 The desire to understand i
2 Nature 15
Nature as an inner principle of change 15
Understanding and‘the why’ 26
Four fashions 28
The hearts of animals 43
3 Change 55
The Parmenidean challenge 5 5
The analysis of change 60
The media of change I: the infinite 65
The media of change И : the infinity of time 74
A paradox of change: Zeno’s arrow 83
4 Man’s nature 96
Soul 96
Perception 101
Mind 116
Active mind 135
Mind in action 141
5 Ethics and the organization of desire 152
The point of the Nicomachean Ethics 152
Happiness and man’s nature 160
Virtue 164
Incontinence 174
Freedom and virtue 186
The master-slave dialectic 192
6 Understanding the broad structure of reality 209
Aristotle’s logic 209
Aristotle’s philosophy of mathematics 231
Metaphysics: the inquiry into being as being 247
The most certain principle of being 249
What is substance? 265
A tourist’s guide to Metaphysics VII 273
Mind’s place outside of nature 293
Man’s place outside of nature 309
Select bibliography 321
Index 327