Samuel H Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 6037697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel H Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel H |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Alabama Department of Philosophy Mobile USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Monistic Conclusion to Aristotle’s Ergon Argument: The Human Good as the Best Achievement of a Human
Scholars have often thought that a monistic reading of Aristotle’s definition of the human good – in particular, one on which “best and most teleios virtue” ( Nicomachean Ethics I 7, 1098a17–18) refers to theoretical wisdom – cannot follow from the premises of the ergon argument. I explain how a monistic reading can follow from the premises, and I argue that this interpretation gives the correct rationale for Aristotle’s definition. I then explai…
The Concept of Ergon: Towards an Achievement Interpretation of Aristotle’s ‘Function Argument’
In Nicomachean Ethics 1.7, Aristotle gives a definition of the human good, and he does so by means of the ‘ergon argument’. This chapter clears the way for a new interpretation of this argument by arguing that Aristotle does not think that the ergon of something is always the proper activity (‘function’) of that thing. Though he has a single concept of an ergon, Aristotle identifies the ergon of an X as an activity in some cases but a product in …
The Tax Revolt and Electoral Competition
Does Enhanced Veto Authority Centralize Government
Experience as a Barrier to Contestability in Airline Markets
Contrary to one of the predictions of the contestability hypothesis, price in deregulated U.S. passenger airline markets is related to actual competition from diversifying former intrastates and newly established carriers. More important, former intrastates have a larger impact on price than do newly established firms--a result consistent with these markets being imperfectly competitive because of an industry experience barrier to entry. Unlike a…
Risk, Leverage and Profitability: An Industry Analysis
T HIS study investigates the effect of financial leverage, or relatively greater use of debt capital, on industry profitability. Recently at least two cross-section studies have yielded the surprising result that systematically higher rates of return are earned by firms with relatively low leverage. Measuring leverage inversely as the ratio of equity to assets,' one would expect the rate of return on equity and this ratio to vary in opposite dire…
Risk, Leverage and Profitability: An Industry Analysis
T HIS study investigates the effect of financial leverage, or relatively greater use of debt capital, on industry profitability. Recently at least two cross-section studies have yielded the surprising result that systematically higher rates of return are earned by firms with relatively low leverage. Measuring leverage inversely as the ratio of equity to assets,' one would expect the rate of return on equity and this ratio to vary in opposite dire…
Experience as a Barrier to Contestability in Airline Markets
Contrary to one of the predictions of the contestability hypothesis, price in deregulated U.S. passenger airline markets is related to actual competition from diversifying former intrastates and newly established carriers. More important, former intrastates have a larger impact on price than do newly established firms--a result consistent with these markets being imperfectly competitive because of an industry experience barrier to entry. Unlike a…
Does Enhanced Veto Authority Centralize Government
The Tax Revolt and Electoral Competition
The Concept of Ergon: Towards an Achievement Interpretation of Aristotle’s ‘Function Argument’
In Nicomachean Ethics 1.7, Aristotle gives a definition of the human good, and he does so by means of the ‘ergon argument’. This chapter clears the way for a new interpretation of this argument by arguing that Aristotle does not think that the ergon of something is always the proper activity (‘function’) of that thing. Though he has a single concept of an ergon, Aristotle identifies the ergon of an X as an activity in some cases but a product in …
A Monistic Conclusion to Aristotle’s Ergon Argument: The Human Good as the Best Achievement of a Human
Scholars have often thought that a monistic reading of Aristotle’s definition of the human good – in particular, one on which “best and most teleios virtue” ( Nicomachean Ethics I 7, 1098a17–18) refers to theoretical wisdom – cannot follow from the premises of the ergon argument. I explain how a monistic reading can follow from the premises, and I argue that this interpretation gives the correct rationale for Aristotle’s definition. I then explai…
Economics (4 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (2 works) · Industrial organization (2 works) · Interpretation (philosophy) (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (2 works) · Macroeconomics (2 works)