Aristotle's Anthropology

Geert Keil is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt University of Berlin. He is co-editor of Vagueness in Psychiatry (2017) and Vagueness and Law (2016). Nora Kreft is a research fellow in philosophy at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her areas of research are moral psychology, philosophy of love and ancient philosophy.

'Innovative in nature and wide in range, the volume will be highly relevant to readers studying Aristotle, as well as to every who works on any ancient or contemporary philosophical anthropology.' Dialogo Filosofico

• Introduction: Aristotle's anthropology Geert Keil and Nora Kreft; Part I. Human Beings as Rational Animals: 1. Aristotle on the definition of what it is to be human Christian Kietzmann; 2. Speech and the rational soul Ian C. McCready-Flora; 3. Aristotle's peculiarly human psychology Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi; 4. The planetary nature of mankind: a cosmological perspective on Aristotle's anthropology Christof Rapp; Part II. Human Nature in the Light of Aristotle's Biology: 5. Is reason natural? Aristotle's zoology of rational animals James G. Lennox; 6. Spot the differences! The hidden philosophical anthropology in Aristotle's biological writings Jörn Müller; 7. Aristotle on the anthropological difference and animal minds Hans-Johann Glock; Part III. Aristotle's Moral Anthropology: 8. Why human virtue is the measure of all virtue Kathi Beier; 9. Aristotle on friendship and being human Nora Kreft; 10. Aristotle on the possibility of moral perfection Christoph Horn; Part IV. Aristotle's Political Anthropology: 11. Political animals and human nature in Aristotle's politics Joseph Karbowski; 12. Political animals and the genealogy of the polis: Aristotle's politics and Plato's statesman David J. Depew; 13. The deficiency of human nature: the task of a 'philosophy of human affairs' Dorothea Frede.