Author : Marta Jimenez
Publisher : Oxford Aristotle Studies
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019882968X
This book presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle's account of how shame instils virtue, and defends its philosophical import. Shame is shown to provide motivational continuity between the actions of the learners and the virtuous dispositions that they will eventually acquire.
Author : M. F. Burnyeat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521750725
The first of two volumes collecting the published work of one of the greatest living ancient philosophers, M.F. Burnyeat.
Author : Howard J. Curzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199693722
Howard J. Curzer presents a fresh new reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which brings each of the virtues alive. He argues that justice and friendship are symbiotic in Aristotle's view; reveals how virtue ethics is not only about being good, but about becoming good; and describes Aristotle's ultimate quest to determine happiness.
Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691020716
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness (eudaimonia), is thought by many readers to argue that this highest goal consists in the largest possible aggregate of intrinsic goods. Richard Kraut proposes instead that Aristotle identifies happiness with only one type of good: excellent activity of the rational soul. In defense of this reading, Kraut discusses Aristotle's attempt to organize all human goods into a single structure, so that each subordinate end is desirable for the sake of some higher goal. This book also emphasizes the philosopher's hierarchy of natural kinds, in which every type of creature achieves its good by imitating divine life. As Kraut argues, Aristotle's belief that thinking is the sole activity of the gods leads him to an intellectualist conception of the ethical virtues. Aristotle values these traits because, by subordinating emotion to reason, they enhance our ability to lead a life devoted to philosophy or politics.
Author : Kristján Kristjánsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192537555
Many people are drawn towards virtue ethics because of the central place it gives to emotions in the good life. Yet it may seem odd to evaluate emotions as virtuous or non-virtuous, for how can we be held responsible for those powerful feelings that simply engulf us? And how can education help us to manage our emotional lives? The aim of this book is to offer readers a new Aristotelian analysis and moral justification of a number of emotions that Aristotle did not mention (awe, grief, and jealousy), or relegated, at best, to the level of the semi-virtuous (shame), or made disparaging remarks about (gratitude), or rejected explicitly (pity, understood as pain at another person's deserved bad fortune). Kristján Kristjánsson argues that there are good Aristotelian reasons for understanding those emotions either as virtuous or as indirectly conducive to virtue. Virtuous Emotions begins with an overview of Aristotle's ideas on the nature of emotions and of emotional value, and concludes with an account of Aristotelian emotion education.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : SDE Classics
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781951570279
Author : Jessica Moss
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199656347
Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to us - a view still dominant in philosophy now. But what is it for something to appear good? This text argues that the notion of the apparent good is crucial to understanding both Aristotle's psychological theory and his ethics.
Author : David Bronstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019872490X
David Bronstein sheds new light on Aristotle's 'Posterior Analytics' - one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of Western philosophy. He argues that it is coherently structured around two themes of enduring philosophical interest - knowledge and learning - and goes on to highlight Plato's influence on Aristotle's text.
Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405153148
The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethicsilluminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics andstudents new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays bydistinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors the organization of theNichomachean Ethics itself. Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, thedistinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness,self-control, and pleasure.
Author : Eugene Garver
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1459606108
What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good - improving one's community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well - cultivating one's own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideas - doi...
