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Van Inwagen (2008). Metaphysics (1) Introduction

Van Inwagen, Peter (2008). Metaphysics. Boulder: Westview Press. IntroductionBut it is a near certainty that someone who has not actually studied metaphysics—formally, in a course of study at the university level—will have no inkling of what the word ‘metaphysics’ means.The nature of metaphysics is best explained by example...metaphysics is the study of ultimate reality. This still seems to me t..

Lawrence (2011) Acquiring character : becoming grown-up

Lawrence, Gavin (2011). Acquiring character : becoming grown-up. In Michael Pakaluk & Giles Pearson (eds.), Moral psychology and human action in Aristotle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Nicomachean Ethics is a work of ‘practical philosophy’. Its concern is Praxis, action, but action in a sense somewhat obscure to the ear of modern philosophy. It is action in a narrower sense than the mere..

Burnyeat (1980) Aristotle on Learning to Be Good

Burnyeat, Myles (1980). Aristotle on learning to be good. In Amélie Rorty (ed.), Essays on Aristotle's Ethics. University of California Press. pp. 69–92.  The question "Can virtue be taught" is perhaps the oldest question in moral philosophy. Recall the opening of Plato's Meno (70a): "Can you tell me, Socrates—can virtue be taught, or is it rather to be acquired by practice? Or is it neither to ..