Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life e-bog
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Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life challenges the common belief that Aristotle's ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appeal that is thought to be intended to provide both substantive ethical advice and justification for the demands of ethics. Sylvia Berryman argues that this is not Aristotle's intent, while resisting the view that Aristotle was blind to questions of the...
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619,55 DKK
Forlag
OUP Oxford
Udgivet
13 marts 2019
Længde
224 sider
Genrer
Ancient, classical and medieval texts
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780192571915
Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life challenges the common belief that Aristotle's ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appeal that is thought to be intended to provide both substantive ethical advice and justification for the demands of ethics. Sylvia Berryman argues that this is not Aristotle's intent, while resisting the view that Aristotle was blind to questions of the source or justification of his ethical views. She interpretsAristotle's views as a 'middle way' between the metaphysical grounding offered by Platonists, and the scepticism or subjectivist alternatives articulated by others. The commitments implicit in the nature of action figure prominently in this account: Aristotle reinterprets Socrates' famous paradox that no-onedoes evil willingly, taking it to mean that a commitment to pursuing the good is implicit in the very nature of action.