Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.
Affecting and being affected -- Backwards causation and continuing -- From necessity to fate : an inevitable step -- Alternative world-histories -- A contemporary look at Aristotle's changing now -- Nature and craft in Aristotelian teleology -- Soul and body in Plato and Descartes -- Aristotle and contemporary ethics -- On the idea of the summum bonum -- What should we mean by 'the highest good'? -- The good of practical beings : Aristotelian perspectives -- Taking stock of leisure.