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315Aristotle on well-being and intellectual contemplation: David CharlesAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 73 (1). 1999.[David Charles] Aristotle, it appears, sometimes identifies well-being with one activity, sometimes with several, including ethical virtue. I argue that this appearance is misleading. In the Nicomachean Ethics, intellectual contemplation is the central case of human well-being, but is not identical with it. Ethically virtuous activity is included in human well-being because it is an analogue of intellectual contemplation. This structure allows Aristotle to hold that while ethically virtuous acti…Read more
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215Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda: Symposium Aristotelicum (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2000.A distinguished group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Book Lambda, which can be regarded as a self-standing treatise on substance, has been attracting particular attention in recent years, and was chosen as the focus of the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume is derived.
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179Definition in Greek philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.Socrates' greatest philosophical contribution was to have initiated the search for definitions. In Definition in Greek Philosophy his views on definition are examined, together with those of his successors, including Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Galen, the Sceptics and Plotinus. Although definition was a major pre-occupation for many Greek philosophers, it has rarely been treated as a separate topic in its own right in recent years. This volume, which contains fourteen new essays by leading sch…Read more
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178Aristotle on meaning and essenceOxford University Press. 2000.David Charles presents a major new study of Aristotle's views on meaning, essence, necessity, and related topics. These interconnected views are central to Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science, and are also highly relevant to current philosophical debates. Charles aims to reach a clear understanding of Aristotle's claims and arguments, to assess their truth, and to evaluate their importance to ancient and modern philosophy.
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64Comments on Aryeh Kosman's The Activity of Being: An Essay on Aristotle's OntologyEuropean Journal of Philosophy 26 (2): 860-871. 2018.
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40Aristotle on Well-Being and Intellectual ContemplationAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 73 205-242. 1999.[David Charles] Aristotle, it appears, sometimes identifies well-being with one activity, sometimes with several, including ethical virtue. I argue that this appearance is misleading. In the Nicomachean Ethics, intellectual contemplation is the central case of human well-being, but is not identical with it. Ethically virtuous activity is included in human well-being because it is an analogue of intellectual contemplation. This structure allows Aristotle to hold that while ethically virtuous acti…Read more
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34Reduction, Explanation, and Realism (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1992.Reduction has long been a favourite method of analysis in all areas of philosophy, but in recent years there has been a reaction against it. The contributors to this volume examine the motivations for such anti-reductionist views and assess their coherence and success in a number of fields.
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4Perfectionism in Aristotle's Political Theory: Reply to Martha NussbaumOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 185-206. 1988.
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Teleological Causation in the PhysicsIn L. Judson (ed.), Aristotle’s Physics: A Collection of Essays, Oxford University Press. pp. 101-128. 1991.
David Charles
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