These essays explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human soul, the idea of the highest good, and the human significance of leisure. They will interest a wide range of readers working on both Ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary analytical concerns. Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
x
1 Affecting and being affected
1
2 Backwards causation and continuing
18
3 From necessity to fate: An inevitable step?
33
4 Alternative world-histories
50
5 A contemporary look at Aristotle's changing Now
72
6 Nature and craft in Aristotelian teleology
85
7 Soul and body in Plato and Descartes
101
8 Aristotle and contemporary ethics
113
9 On the idea of the summum bonum
135
10 What should we mean by 'the highest good'?
153
11 The good of practical beings: Aristotelian perspectives
166
12 Taking stock of leisure
184
References
199
Index of names
202
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