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Necessity, cause, and blame : perspectives on Aristotle's theory / Richard Sorabji.

Title
Necessity, cause, and blame : perspectives on Aristotle's theory / Richard Sorabji.
Author
Sorabji, Richard.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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xv, 326 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
  • Aristotle > Ethics
  • Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
  • Ethics, Ancient
  • Free will and determinism
  • Necessity (Philosophy)
  • Causation
  • Blame
  • Blame
  • Causation
  • Free will and determinism
Note
  • Originally published: 1980.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I. Necessity and Cause -- Chapter 1. Do Coincidences have Causes? -- Chapter 2. Is Cause related to Necessitation or to Explanation? -- Chapter 3. Necessitation and Law in Ancient Accounts of Cause and Explanation -- Chapter 4. Stoic Embarrassment over Necessity -- Part II. Necessity and Time -- Chapter 5. Tomorrow's Sea Battle: an argument from past truth -- Chapter 6. Other Arguments from the Necessity of the Past -- Chapter 7. Other Arguments from Foreknowledge -- Chapter 8. Deterministic and Indeterministic Accounts of Possibility -- Part III. Necessity and Purpose in Nature -- Chapter 9. Necessity in Nature -- Chapter 10. Purpose in Nature -- Chapter 11. Ancient and Modern Theories of Natural Selection: their relation to purpose -- Part IV. Necessity and the Essences of Kinds -- Chapter 12. Analytic or de re? -- Chapter 13. Why Necessary rather than Contingent? -- Appendix. Kinds of Necessity -- Part V. Necessity and Blame -- Chapter 14. Cause and Necessity in Human Action -- Chapter 15. The Relation of Determinism to Involuntariness: Aristotle's alleged nescience -- Chapter 16. Involuntariness and Equity: Aristotle's alleged parsimony -- Chapter 17. Voluntariness, Temptation, Negligence: a succession of attempts at analysis -- Chapter 18. Aristotle's Contribution to Legal Theory -- Appendix. Tragic Error.
ISBN
  • 0226768244
  • 9780226768243
LCCN
2005032948
OCLC
62342728
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library