| Preface |
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ix | |
| Acknowledgements |
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xi | |
| Note to the Reader |
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xii | |
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1 The Reasons for This Research |
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1 | (53) |
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1 The Focus of This Research. Aristotle Reflects on Prescription |
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1 | (13) |
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2 The Historical Background: the Debate on Prescription in the v and iv Centuries |
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14 | (15) |
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3 Aristotle's Criticism of Socrates |
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29 | (16) |
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4 Prescription in Plato's Republic |
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45 | (4) |
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5 The Reasons for a Historiographical Inquiry. Synopsis of the Book |
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49 | (5) |
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54 | (40) |
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1 The Relationship between Deliberation and the So-Called Practical Syllogism |
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54 | (10) |
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2 The Relationship between the Logical Form of Deliberation and Practical Syllogism |
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64 | (6) |
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3 The Object of Deliberation |
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70 | (8) |
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4 Circumstances. The Particularistic Interpretation |
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78 | (6) |
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84 | (4) |
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6 Concluding Remarks on the Debate about Practical Reasoning |
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88 | (6) |
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3 Deliberation and Prescription |
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94 | (64) |
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1 Preliminary Remarks: Deliberation as Procedural Reasoning |
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94 | (8) |
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2 The Structure of Deliberation |
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102 | (6) |
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3 The Hypothetical Method |
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108 | (8) |
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116 | (5) |
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121 | (7) |
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6 Desire, Deliberation and Prescription |
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128 | (5) |
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7 Deliberative Imagination and Recollection |
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133 | (9) |
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8 The Conversion of Deliberation into Syllogism |
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142 | (9) |
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9 The "Advantage" of Syllogism. Normative Opinions |
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151 | (7) |
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4 Prescriptive Reason and Practical Wisdom |
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158 | (51) |
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1 Preliminary Remarks on Aristotle's Notion of Prescription |
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158 | (5) |
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2 The Semantic and Conceptual Domain of Prescription. The Platonic Background |
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163 | (10) |
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3 Prescriptive Logos as a Psychic Faculty |
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173 | (8) |
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4 The Argumentative and Discursive Nature of Prescriptive Logos |
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181 | (6) |
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5 The Prescriptive Function of Practical Wisdom |
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187 | (11) |
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6 Prescription and Moral Character |
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198 | (4) |
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202 | (7) |
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5 Prescription and Architectonic Order |
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209 | (37) |
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1 Prescription and Politics. Preliminary Remarks |
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209 | (7) |
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2 The Difference between Action and Production |
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216 | (7) |
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3 The Relationship of Prescription with Use and Possession |
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223 | (11) |
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4 Prescriptive Wisdom and True Opinion |
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234 | (7) |
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5 Brief Remarks on the Guiding Functions of the State |
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241 | (5) |
| Conclusions |
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246 | (5) |
| Bibliography |
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251 | (11) |
| Index Nominum et Rerum |
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262 | (3) |
| Index Locorum |
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265 | |
