ABSTRACT
Suppose that Aristotle’s practical philosophy had also been bequeathed to us in the form of an illustrated album about the life of sailors, one of his beloved metaphors. The aim of this book has been to foreground five illustrations—those of spectators, legislators, hopes, prayers, and radical evil—that have been until now overlooked or undervalued, on the assumption that they do not actually belong to the album. To this end, it invited the reader to regard these five illustrations in a new light so as to realize that they are in fact in tune with the spirit of the album and yield important insights without which the understanding of the whole album can hardly be adequate, let alone complete. The present brief chapter uses Aristotle’s numerous nautical metaphors to visualize the scope of the practical domain.
