Tom Angier is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

'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: Aristotle's Ethical Mean \ 5. Ethismos: Aristotle's Theory of Habituation \ Conclusion \ Appendix \ Bibliography \ Index.

Tom Angier is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

'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: Aristotle's Ethical Mean \ 5. Ethismos: Aristotle's Theory of Habituation \ Conclusion \ Appendix \ Bibliography \ Index.