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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Michael Dummett opens his monumental Frege: Philosophy of Language in a rather personal mood: “I am always disappointed when a book lacks a preface: it is like arriving at someone’s house for dinner and being conducted straight into the dining-room.” Transferring the comparison from prefaces to introductions I could in the same personal vein say that I am always glad when a book lacks a lengthy introduction. If I am hungry I prefer to skip the drinks and snacks in the antechamber; they might and frequently do spoil my appetite. This introduction then will be short but I hope not too short to be useless. This is not nor pretends to be a work of classical scholarship. Its purport is not historical; nor is it my intention to reproduce ‘what Aristotle really thought. It is perhaps best described as a modest contribution to what one could call the ‘neo-scholastic revival’ of the study of Aristotle. It provides a rather speculative and probably controversial interpretation of the adage ‘ethics is practical’. It self-consciously exploits modern apparatus in arguing that the key to its decipherment lies not in Aristotle’s ethical writings but rather in its presuppositions. The argument is in essentials not difficult although it might be easy to loose track. I shall not therefore beat about the bush and rise to the occasion this introduction offers to give a concise version of the story which may serve the reader. (LL)