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Article: Aristotle's [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]: a true grasp of ends as well as means?
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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ANY SCHOLAR INVESTIGATING ARISTOTLE'S ACCOUNT of [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] sooner or later encounters the question whether [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] concerns means to the ends of human actions or those ends themselves. There is an abundance of literature, mostly French, on the topic; (1) nevertheless, the question is worthy of reconsideration, because an element essential to answering the question, namely an understanding of the ends of human action or [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], has not received adequate treatment in the literature to date. One reason for this oversight is that Aristotle defines [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] ...