The Big Idea

Things move from potentiality to actuality in ways that can be understood through the four causes and through the ends built into natural life. Human beings fulfill their nature by forming virtuous habits, exercising reason well, and pursuing eudaimonia within the life of a political community.

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The Basic Works of Aristotle

The Big Idea

Sections

The Anatomy of Predication and Being

The Four Explanatory Principles

Teleology and Internal Ends

Hylomorphism and the Architecture of Substance

Potentiality and Actuality

The Unmoved Mover

The Soul as the Form of the Living Body

Eudaimonia and the Human Function

Virtue and the Doctrine of the Mean

Practical Wisdom and Deliberation

The Natural Priority of the Political Community

Mimesis and the Logic of Action

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