Overview

The focus of Aristotle on Prescription is Aristotle’s reflections on rule-making. It is widely believed that Aristotle was only concerned with decision-making, understood as a deliberative process enabling a person to arrive at particular, contingent decisions. However, rule-making is fundamental to Aristotle’s ethical texts. Establishing rules means indicating patterns for action that are sufficiently specific to meet situational difficulties and sufficiently constant in time to provide us with a code of behaviour to be used in similar situations. When we prescribe rules, we demonstrate the ability to direct not only our own life but also other people’s lives. Alesse’s book explores Aristotle’s deep reflections on the nature and functions of prescription, and on the relationship between rules and individual decisions.

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The book presents challenging and controversial interpretations of a variety of texts and issues, and ... will be of interest to specialists in Aristotle's practical philosophy. - David J. Riesbeck, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.07.62

"""The book presents challenging and controversial interpretations of a variety of texts and issues, and … will be of interest to specialists in Aristotle’s practical philosophy."" — David J. Riesbeck, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.07.62"

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Francesca Alesse is Senior Researcher at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy). She has published monographs and articles on Hellenistic philosophy and edited collective volumes on early and late philosophical traditions (e.g. Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy, Brill 2008).

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