Life and Action
Life and Action Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts--concepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. In Thompson's view, failure to comprehend the structures of…
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Life and Action
Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts--concepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. In Thompson's view, failure to comprehend the structures of thought and judgment expressed in these concepts has disfigured modern moral philosophy, rendering it incapable of addressing the larger questions that should be its focus.In three investigations, Thompson considers life, action, and practice successively, attempting to exhibit these interrelated concepts as pure categories of thought, and to show how a proper exposition of them must be Aristotelian in character. This clarity is Michael Thompson's aim in his ambitious work.
He contends that the pure character of these categories, and the Aristotelian forms of reflection necessary to grasp them, are systematically obscured by modern theoretical philosophy, which thus blocks the way to the renewal of
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