Ethics and metaphysics in Aristotle

• Grant number: 01/08899-5
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2002
• End date: March 31, 2006
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Marco Antônio de Ávila Zingano
• Grantee: Marco Antônio de Ávila Zingano
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant(s): 05/57358-8 - Paolo Crivelli | University of Oxford - Inglaterra, AV.EXT

Abstract

This research project on aristotelian philosophy is meant to scrutinize his main theses on ethics and metaphysics, aiming to evince the conceptual relationships they have one with the other. This requires a deep understanding of the core of the metaphysical decisions Aristotle took in order to develop his philosophical system, particularly the rôle reason has in its different uses - as theoretical, practical and productive reason. Major topics belonging to the physical treatises and to logics will also be examined, for they have an important part in the conceptual framework of aristotelian philosophy. The research team consists of five university professors of philosophy, all of them currently engaged in discussing topics of aristotelian and ancient greek philosophy. (AU)