Aristotle’s Uses of ἕνεκα

I argue that Aristotle’s arguments in passages regarding chance in the Physics and in passages about ignorance in action in the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics presuppose two different uses of ‘for the sake (ἕνεκα) of something’, which are able to explain respectively the wish or thought of agents a...

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Main Author: Oki, Takashi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Phronesis
Year: 2022, Volume: 67, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-26
Further subjects:B the Ethics
B the Physics
B ‘for the sake of something’
B Chance
B Aristotle
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Summary:I argue that Aristotle’s arguments in passages regarding chance in the Physics and in passages about ignorance in action in the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics presuppose two different uses of ‘for the sake (ἕνεκα) of something’, which are able to explain respectively the wish or thought of agents and the type or nature of what they actually do. In my view, however, this does not commit Aristotle, in the ‘ignorance’ passages from the two Ethics, to holding that the type or nature of what the agents actually do is for the sake of killing or wounding.
ISSN:1568-5284
Contains:Enthalten in: Phronesis
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685284-bja10049