The Philosophy Of Human Affairs

Download or read book The Philosophy of Human Affairs written by Aristotle and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's Ethics and Politics are two separate works dealing with the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author's whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The proem to the Ethics is an introduction to the whole subject, not merely to the first part; the last chapter of the Ethics points forward to the Politics, and sketches for that part of the treatise the order of enquiry to be pursued.