Tom Angier is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

'Angier's rigorous defence of the centrality of craft models and metaphors in Aristotle's ethics is a significant contribution to Aristotelian scholarship with which we would do well to engage.'

• Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: Techne in pre-Platonic Greek Thought; 1. Techne in the Platonic dialogues; 2. Aristotle reacts to his inheritance; 3. Ergon: The Function Argument; 4. Mesotes: The Doctrine of the Mean; 5. Ethismos: Moral Habituation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Tom Angier is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

'Angier's rigorous defence of the centrality of craft models and metaphors in Aristotle's ethics is a significant contribution to Aristotelian scholarship with which we would do well to engage.'

• Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: Techne in pre-Platonic Greek Thought; 1. Techne in the Platonic dialogues; 2. Aristotle reacts to his inheritance; 3. Ergon: The Function Argument; 4. Mesotes: The Doctrine of the Mean; 5. Ethismos: Moral Habituation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.