A sophisticated and illuminating study of central questions about Aristotle’s views on practical reason and the ultimate good. Cooper’s three chapters … examine familiar exegetical puzzles in a fresh and challenging way; but they also … raise new and fruitful questions about the philosophical merits and implications of Aristotle’s theories… . He writes vigorously and lucidly, with both scholarly rigor and philosophical imagination. –T. H. Irwin in Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie