virtues of thought Virtues of thought Essays on Plato and Aristotle Aryeh Kosman Cambridge, Massachusetts London, Eng land 2014 Copyright © 2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Page 6 constitutes an extension of the copyright page. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kosman, Louis Aryeh. [Essays. Selections] Virtues of thought : essays on Plato and Aristotle / Aryeh Kosman. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-73080-9 (alk. paper) 1. Plato. 2. Aristotle. 3. Philosophy, Ancient. I. Title. B395.K55 2013 184—dc23 2013030360 For Amélie Oksenberg Rorty Contents Introduction 1 1. Understanding, Explanation, and Insight in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics 7 2. Platonic Love 27 3. Perceiving That We Perceive: De Anima 3.2 43 4. Being Properly Affected: Virtues and Feelings in Aristotle’s Ethics 62 5. Necessity and Explanation in Aristotle’s Analytics 77 6. Acting: Drama as the Mimesis of Praxis 94 7. What Does the Maker Mind Make? 119 8. Saving the Phenomena: Realism and Instrumentalism in Aristotle’s Theory of Science 138 9. Aristotle on the Desirability of Friends 157 10. Justice and Virtue: The Republic’s Inquiry into Proper Difference 183 11. Male and Female in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 204 12. Self- Knowledge and Self-C ontrol in Plato’s Charmides 227 13. Beauty and the Good: Situating the Kalon 246 viii Contents 14. Translating Ousia 267 15. Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought 280 Notes 299 Index 319 virtues of thought