Bryan C Reece
Biographic Data
| ID | 9490607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan C Reece |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Reece |
| SIGNATURE | REECE B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2324-4713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom
Aristotle on Divine and Human Contemplation
Aristotle's theory of human happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics explicitly depends on the claim that contemplation (theria) is peculiar to human beings, whether it is our function or only part of it. But there is a notorious problem: Aristotle says that divine beings also contemplate. Various solutions have been proposed, but each has difficulties. Drawing on an analysis of what divine contemplation involves according to Aristotle, I identify an …
Are There Really Two Kinds of Happiness in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle appears to claim at Nicomachean Ethics 10.8, 1178a9 that there are two kinds of happy life: one theoretical, one practical. This claim is notoriously problematic and does not follow from anything that Aristotle has said to that point. However, the apparent claim depends on supplying “happy” or “happiest” from the previous sentence, as is standard among translators and interpreters. I argue for an alternative supplement that commits Aris…
Aristotle's Four Causes of Action
Aristotle's typical procedure is to identify four causes of natural changes. Intentional action, a natural change, has standardly been treated as an exception: most think that Aristotle has the standard causalist account, according to which an intentional action is a bodily movement efficiently caused by an attitude of the appropriate sort. I show that action is not an exception to Aristotle's typical procedure: he has the resources to specify fo…
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Aristotle's Four Causes of Action
Aristotle's typical procedure is to identify four causes of natural changes. Intentional action, a natural change, has standardly been treated as an exception: most think that Aristotle has the standard causalist account, according to which an intentional action is a bodily movement efficiently caused by an attitude of the appropriate sort. I show that action is not an exception to Aristotle's typical procedure: he has the resources to specify fo…
Aristotle on Divine and Human Contemplation
Aristotle's theory of human happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics explicitly depends on the claim that contemplation (theria) is peculiar to human beings, whether it is our function or only part of it. But there is a notorious problem: Aristotle says that divine beings also contemplate. Various solutions have been proposed, but each has difficulties. Drawing on an analysis of what divine contemplation involves according to Aristotle, I identify an …
Are There Really Two Kinds of Happiness in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle appears to claim at Nicomachean Ethics 10.8, 1178a9 that there are two kinds of happy life: one theoretical, one practical. This claim is notoriously problematic and does not follow from anything that Aristotle has said to that point. However, the apparent claim depends on supplying “happy” or “happiest” from the previous sentence, as is standard among translators and interpreters. I argue for an alternative supplement that commits Aris…
Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom
Classical Philosophy and Thought (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Contemplation (2 works) · Happiness (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work)