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A Person As a Lifetime : An Aristotelian Account of Persons by Stephanie M. Semler is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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Is it possible to derive a viable definition of persons from Aristotle’s work? In A Person as a Lifetime: An Aristotelian Account of Persons, Stephanie M. Semler argues that we can. She finds the component parts of this definition in his writing on ethics and metaphysics, and the structure of this working definition is that of an entire lifetime. If J.O. Urmson is right that “[t]o call somebody a eudaimon is to judge his life as a whole,” then a Greek, and by extension an Aristotelian account of
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- Author
- Stephanie M. Semler
- Publisher
- Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780739198469
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Anthropology, History, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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