Pavlos kontos biography of william hill

Commentators on Aristotle’s practical philosophy rarely find new topics. Most of the time we debate classical topics by finding new clues and going into more details about, for example, the precise understanding of happiness, the relation between ethical and intellectual virtue, the structure of practical syllogism, the mechanism of akrasia, etc.

But Pavlos Kontos’s book Aristotle on the Scope of Practical Reason does find new and untrodden territory, and enlarges the scope of our understanding of Aristotle’s practical philosophy. Drawing on resources from both the Aristotelian tradition (covering a wide range of ancient and contemporary commentators) and various other traditions of practical philosophy (notably Isocrates, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Kant, Gadamer, Arendt, Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams), this book provides new agendas in general and richly detailed interpretation of certain texts in particular.

Kontos acquaints us with four kinds of Aristotelian figures who have been