T H Irwin

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NOMET H Irwin
PRENOMEST H
SOBRENOMEIrwin
ASSINATURAIRWIN T H
AFILIAÇÕESEmeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Oxford Oxford UK
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS38
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES51
TOTAL COMO AUTOR38
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1975
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
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  • Aristotle and the Law

    Open AccessT H IrwinARTICLEPolis The Journal for Ancient…2026

    Aristotle believes that, since ethics is a practical discipline, we would waste our time if we described virtues that we cannot reasonably aim at. We can see that we are capable of acquiring virtue, if we examine legal practice, because it assumes that we are capable of doing good and bad actions and of being virtuous and vicious. The actions that legislators prescribe are those that are open to praise and blame, and these are voluntary actions. …

  • Reason and Responsibility in Aristotle

    T H IrwinCHAPTEREssays on Aristotle's Ethics2023

  • Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics

    Open AccessJö Müller, Kevin Flannery et al.BOOKAquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics2013

    Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of moralit…

  • Conceptions of Happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics

    T H IrwinCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of Aristotle2012

    Aristotle begins the Nicomachean Ethics by asking what the final good for human beings is. He identifies this final good with happiness, and in the rest of Book I, asks what happiness is. In I 7, Aristotle reaches an “outline” of an answer, claiming that the human good (that is, happiness) is activity of the soul in accordance with the best and most perfect (or complete) virtue in a perfect life. But he does not say what the best and most perfect…

  • Antiochus, Aristotle and the Stoics on degrees of happiness

    Open AccessT H Irwin, Terence IrwinCHAPTERPhilosophy of Antiochus2012

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  • Beauty and morality in Aristotle

    Open AccessT H Irwin, Terence IrwinCHAPTER'Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics'2011

    According to Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics is a work of political science, and political science considers "just and kalon things" (i.3, 1094b14). He devotes a whole book to a discussion of justice, but he offers no explicit discussion of the kalon. The Eudemian Ethics begins by rejecting the view expressed in the Delian epigram, that the most kalon, the best, and the pleasantest are three different things. Aristotle affirms that happiness is…

  • Continuity in the History of Autonomy

    T H Irwin, Terence IrwinARTICLEInquiry2011Citada por: 1Referências: 9

    Six apparent features of Kant's conception of autonomy appear to differentiate it sharply from anything that we can find in an Aristotelian conception of will and practical reason. (1) Autonomy requires a role for practical reason independent of its instrumental role in relation to non-rational desires. (2) This role belongs to the rational will. (3) This role consists in the rational will's being guided by its own law. (4) This guidance by the l…

  • The Sense and Reference of Kalon in Aristotle

    T H Irwin, Terence IrwinARTICLEClassical Philology2010

  • Scotus and the Possibility of Moral Motivation

    T H Irwin, Terence IrwinCHAPTERMorality and Self-Interest2007

    Scotus believes it is clear that the pursuit of happiness is not psychologically supreme. If the will necessarily pursued happiness, it follows that whenever both x and y are open, x rather than y promotes happiness. But Scotus replies that sometimes we are aware that x rather than y promotes happiness, but we can simply choose to pursue neither x nor y. If we suspend further action, we choose to be indifferent toward happiness. Scotus agrees wit…

  • A ‘Fundamental Misunderstanding’

    Open AccessT H Irwin, Terence IrwinARTICLEUtilitas2007

    One of the many illuminating aspects of Bart Schultz's book is the recurrent theme of Sidgwick's Socratic inspiration. Some of Sidgwick's contemporaries at Cambridge were among those who gave new life to the study of Socrates and Plato in England. The Cambridge Apostles were self-consciously devoted both to Socratic ideals of friendship and to the Socratic aim of impartial free inquiry on fundamental questions

  • Aristotle on Meaning and Essence

    T H Irwin, Terence Irwin et al.ARTICLEInternational Philosophical…2004

  • Stoic Naturalism and Its Critics

    Open AccessT H Irwin, Terence IrwinCHAPTERCambridge Companion to the Stoics2003

    Three Stoic doctrines have heavily influenced the course of later moral philosophy: (1) Eudaemonism: the ultimate end for rational action is the agent's own happiness. (2) Naturalism: happiness and virtue consist in living in accord with nature. (3) Moralism: moral virtue is to be chosen for its own sake and is to be preferred above any combination of items with non-moral value. These Stoic doctrines provide some later moralists with a starting-p…

  • Ethics as an Inexact Science

    T H Irwin, Terence IrwinCHAPTERMoral Particularism2000

    At the beginning of the Nicomachean Ethics, (hereafter EN), Aristotle warns that we must not demand too much exactness in ethical inquiry (1094bll-14). The difficulty of finding an exact account in ethics results not from our lack of diligence, but from an ineliminable feature of the subject matter. The variability of fine, just, and good things makes it impossible to reach necessary and universal principles; we must say something ‘roughly and in…

  • Stoic Inhumanity

    T H Irwin, Terence IrwinCHAPTEREmotions in Hellenistic Philosophy1998

  • Ethics

    Open AccessC C Taylor, Charles H Kahn et al.BOOKEthics1998

    This fourth Companion to Ancient Thought is devoted to ancient ethics. The chapters range over the ethical theories of all the major philosophers and schools from the earliest times to the work of the Hellenistic philosophers. There is a substantial introduction which considers the question of what is distinctive about ancient ethics, and an extensive bibliography. This collection provides a sophisticated and accessible introduction to the moral …

  • Practical Reason Divided

    T H Irwin, Terence IrwinCHAPTEREthics and practical reason1997

    Early in his discussion of virtue of character, Aristotle takes it to be obvious that virtue is somehow connected with practical reason: ‘First, then, actions should express correct reason. That is a common [belief], and let us assume it; later we will say what correct reason is and how it is related to the other virtues’ (Nicomachean Ethics 1103b31-4). When he argues that virtue lies in a mean, he adds that the mean is ‘determined by reason, and…

  • Plato

    Open AccessT H Irwin, Terence IrwinCHAPTERThe Cambridge Companion To Plato1992

    We lack the materials for a proper biography of Plato. He hardly refers to himself at all in the dialogues. The ancient "Lives" are infected by gossip, legend, and fiction and the ostensibly autobiographical Seventh Letter is probably spurious. Fortunately, however, Aristotle provides us with important evidence on Plato's intellectual development. He says that Plato was first influenced by Cratylus the Heraclitean, and later by Socrates (Met. 987…

  • Who Discovered the Will

    T H Irwin, Terence IrwinARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives1992Citada por: 2

    Many modern critics regard the concept of the will as an anachronism that ought to be excluded from our account of Greek philosophers. Ross remarks: 'It has often been complained that the psychology of Plato and Aristotle has no distinct conception of the Gauthier insists that 'in the psychology of Aristotle the will does not exist'.2 According to Maclntyre, 'Aristotle, like every other ancient pre-Christian author, had no concept of the will and…

  • Aristippus Against Happiness

    T H Irwin, Terence Irwin et al.ARTICLEThe Monist1991

    Journal Article Self, Society and Kantian Impersonality Get access T. H. Irwin T. H. Irwin Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 74, Issue 1, 1 January 1991, Pages 55–82, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist19917412 Published: 09 December 2014

  • Kant and the Claims of Knowledge

    T H Irwin, Paul GuyerARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1991Citada por: 39

  • Aristotle's First Principles

    Christopher Shields, T H Irwin et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • The Structure of Aristotelian Happiness Aristotle on the Human Good. Richard Kraut

    T H Irwin, Terence IrwinARTICLEEthics1991Citada por: 4

  • Virtue, Praise and Success

    T H Irwin, Terence Irwin et al.ARTICLEThe Monist1990

    Journal Article Virtue, Praise and Success: Stoic Responses to Aristotle Get access T. H. Irwin T. H. Irwin Sage School of Philosophy Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 73, Issue 1, 1 January 1990, Pages 59–79, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist199073115 Published: 09 December 2014

  • Some Rational Aspects of Incontinence

    Open AccessT H Irwin, Terence IrwinARTICLEThe Southern Journal of Philosophy1989Citada por: 2

  • Generosity and Property in Aristotle's Politics

    Open AccessT H Irwin, Terence IrwinARTICLESocial Philosophy and Policy1987

    Etymology might encourage us to begin a discussion of Aristotle on philanthropy with a discussion of philanthropia ; and it is instructive to see why this is not quite the right place to look. The Greek term initially refers to a generalized attitude of kindness and consideration for a human being. The gods accuse Prometheus of being a ‘human-lover’, intending the term in an unfavorable sense, when he confers on human beings the benefits that sho…