Teleology of the practical in Aristotle: The meaning of “πρaξις”

• Autores: Klaus Corcilius
• Localización: Manuscrito: revista internacional de filosofía, ISSN 0100-6045, Vol. 42, Nº. 4, 2019, págs. 352-386
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Abstract I show that in his De motu animalium Aristoteles proposes a teleology of the practical on the most general zoological level, i.e. on the level common to humans and self-moving animals. A teleology of the practical is a teleological account of the highest practical goals of animal and human self-motion. I argue that Aristotle conceives of such highest practical goals as goals that are contingently related to their realizations. Animal and human self-motion is the kind of action in which certain state of affairs that realize values are mechanized.