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Author : I Xuan Chong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Ethics
ISBN : OCLC:1413265873
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153978438X
The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author's whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. The title is often assumed to refer to his son Nicomachus, to whom the work was dedicated or who may have edited it (although his young age makes this less likely). Alternatively, the work may have been dedicated to his father, who was also called Nicomachus. The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, of how men should best live. In his Metaphysics, Aristotle described how Socrates, the friend and teacher of Plato, had turned philosophy to human questions, whereas Pre-Socratic philosophy had only been theoretical. Ethics, as now separated out for discussion by Aristotle, is practical rather than theoretical, in the original Aristotelian senses of these terms. In other words, it is not only a contemplation about good living, because it also aims to create good living. It is therefore connected to Aristotle's other practical work, the Politics, which similarly aims at people becoming good. Ethics is about how individuals should best live, while the study of politics is from the perspective of a law-giver, looking at the good of a whole community.
Author : A. W. Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198709358
In this authoritative discussion of the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, A. W. Price considers four related areas: eudaimonia, or living and acting well, as the ultimate end of action; virtues of character in relation to the emotions, and to one another; practical reasoning, especially from an end to ways or means; and acrasia, or action that is contrary to the agent's own judgement of what is best. The focal concept is that of eudaimonia, which both Plato and Aristotle view as an abstract goal that is valuable enough to motivate action. Virtue has a double role to play in making its achievement possible, both in proposing subordinate ends apt to the context, and in protecting the agent against temptations to discard them too easily. For both purposes, Price suggests that virtues need to form a unity--but one that can be conceived in various ways. Among the tasks of deliberation is to work out how, and whether, to pursue some putative end in context. Aristotle returns to early Plato in finding it problematic that one should consciously sacrifice acting well to some incidental attraction; Plato later finds this possible by postulating schism within the soul. Price maintains that it is their emphasis upon the centrality of action within human life that makes the reflections of these ancient philosophers perennially relevant.
Author : Rod Jenks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498592048
In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues, Rod Jenks argues that while Plato makes several attempts to show how virtue is one, he deliberately fails to secure this because he thinks the way in which the virtues are both one and many is finally ineffable.
Author : Rachel Barney,Tad Brennan,Charles Brittain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521899666
Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.
Author : Ronna Burger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226080543
What is the good life for a human being? Aristotle’s exploration of this question in the Nicomachean Ethics has established it as a founding work of Western philosophy, though its teachings have long puzzled readers and provoked spirited discussion. Adopting a radically new point of view, Ronna Burger deciphers some of the most perplexing conundrums of this influential treatise by approaching it as Aristotle’s dialogue with the Platonic Socrates. Tracing the argument of the Ethics as it emerges through that approach, Burger’s careful reading shows how Aristotle represents ethical virtue from the perspective of those devoted to it while standing back to examine its assumptions and implications. “This is the best book I have read on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. It is so well crafted that reading it is like reading the Ethics itself, in that it provides an education in ethical matters that does justice to all sides of the issues.”—Mary P. Nichols, Baylor University
Author : Paul Shorey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000029677924
Author : George E. Karamanolis,George Karamanolis,Giōrgos E. Karamanōlēs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199264568
George Karamanolis breaks new ground in the study of later ancient philosophy by examining the interplay of the two main schools of thought, Platonism and Aristotelianism, from the first century BC to the third century AD. Arguing against prevailing scholarly assumption, he argues that the Platonists turned to Aristotle only in order to elucidate Plato's doctrines and to reconstruct Plato's philosophy, and that they did not hesitate to criticize Aristotle when judging him to be at odds with Plato. Karamanolis offers much food for thought to ancient philosophers and classicists.
Author : Terence Irwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198024750
This exceptional book examines and explains Plato's answer to the normative question, "How ought we to live?" It discusses Plato's conception of the virtues; his views about the connection between the virtues and happiness; and the account of reason, desire, and motivation that underlies his arguments about the virtues. Plato's answer to the epistemological question, "How can we know how we ought to live?" is also discussed. His views on knowledge, belief, and inquiry, and his theory of Forms, are examined, insofar as they are relevant to his ethical view. Terence Irwin traces the development of Plato's moral philosophy, from the Socratic dialogues to its fullest exposition in the Republic. Plato's Ethics discusses Plato's reasons for abandoning or modifying some aspects of Socratic ethics, and for believing that he preserves Socrates' essential insights. A brief and selective discussion of the Statesmen, Philebus, and Laws is included. Replacing Irwin's earlier Plato's Moral Theory (Oxford, 1977), this book gives a clearer and fuller account of the main questions and discusses some recent controversies in the interpretation of Plato's ethics. It does not presuppose any knowledge of Greek or any extensive knowledge of Plato.
Author : William Henry Werkmeister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : UCSC:32106006251737
Author : Paula Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521761765
This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Author : William J. Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315522043
Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues, their relation to each other, and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics, such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, accessible to readers with no training in the classics.
Author : Christopher Gill
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191555800
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Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046720475
Author : Robert Heinaman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351910767
This volume, emanating from the Fourth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, presents essays and comments by nine outstanding scholars of ancient philosophy, which examine the influence of Plato on the development of Aristotle's ethics. The essays focus on the role of pleasure in happiness and the good life (Christopher Taylor and Sarah Broadie), the irreducibility of ethical concepts to value-neutral concepts (Anthony Price and Sarah Broadie), the relation of virtue to happiness (Roger Crisp and Christopher Rowe, Terry Irwin and Sir Anthony Kenny), the role of the requirement of self-sufficiency in determining the content of happiness (John Cooper and Sir Anthony Kenny), and the question of whether the just man should be a participant in the political life of his city (Richard Kraut and Christopher Rowe).