Sparshott on How to Take Aristotle Seriously
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687218 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gareth B Matthews (University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 615-622 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s001221730001711x |
| OpenAlex | W2137555160 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Francis Sparshott has written a wonderfully wise, urbane, honest, insightful, and provocative commentary on Aristotle's chief ethical work, the Nicomachean Ethics (NE) . Some commentaries on ancient philosophical texts are line-by-line struggles to nail down the meaning of the text, as if the commentator were roofing a house in a high wind, one shingle at a time. Other commentaries are collections of essays, each inspired by a passage in the text, but each growing into a relatively self-contained discussion. Sparshott's commentary is neither of these things
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |