This book offers a new account of Aristotle's practical philosophy. Kontos argues that Aristotle does not restrict practical reason to its action-guiding and motivational role; rather, practical reason remains practical in the full sense of the term even when its exercise does not immediately concern the guidance of our present actions.

Pavlos Kontos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece. Publications: Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered (2011), L'action morale chez Aristote (2002). Co-editor: Evil in Aristotle (2018), Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political (2017), Gadamer et les Grecs (2005).

Introduction

1. Fully Virtuous Spectators Without Practical Wisdom

2. Straddling Borders: The Legislator's Enigmatic Activity

3. Hopes, Prayers, and Moral Luck

4. Radical Evil

Denouement: Aristotle's Sailors