Author : Richard Bodeus
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 1993-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791496929
A study in the best tradition of classical scholarship, showing mastery of commentary and scholarship in eight languages, this book argues that the Ethics is integral to a series of politically oriented philosophical addresses aimed at morally mature political leaders. Bodeus's critical review of the major approaches to Aristotle's texts is an excellent introduction to the subject.
Author : Richard Bod??s
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791416099
A study in the best tradition of classical scholarship, showing mastery of commentary and scholarship in eight languages, this book argues that the Ethics is integral to a series of politically oriented philosophical addresses aimed at morally mature political leaders. Bodeus's critical review of the major approaches to Aristotle's texts is an excellent introduction to the subject.
Author : Aristide Tessitore
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791430477
Presents the Nicomachean Ethics as a work of political philosophy, emphasizing the interplay between its practical political concerns and its underlying philosophic perspective and arguing that it is rhetorical in the precise Aristotelian meaning of the term.
Author : Aristotle
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438462689
In this book, Ann Ward explores Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the progressive structure of the argument. Aristotle begins by giving an account of moral virtue from the perspective of the moral agent, only to find that the account itself highlights fundamental tensions within the virtues that push the moral agent into the realm of intellectual virtue. However, the existence of an intellectual realm separate from the moral realm can lead to lack of self-restraint. Aristotle, Ward argues, locates political philosophy and the experience of friendship as possible solutions to the problem of lack of self-restraint, since political philosophy thinks about the human things in a universal way, and friendship grounds the pursuit of the good which is happiness understood as contemplation. Ward concludes that Aristotle's philosophy of friendship points to the embodied intellect of timocratic friends and mothers in their activity of mothering as engaging in the highest form of contemplation and thus living the happiest life.
Author : Paula Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 052176176X
This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Author : Eugene Garver
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 34,21 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...
Author : Lenn E. Goodman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791479366
According to Aristotle, man's essential sociality implies a distinctive conception of politics, one in which all political associations exist for the sake of the moral perfection of human beings. This stands in sharp contrast with the modern view of politics that man is not "by nature" political; rather, man chooses to create political associations for the sake of securing the protection of his life and property. Many political theorists have begun to express doubts about this modern view, calling for a return to Aristotle's vision of a politics that is deeply moral. In Aristotle's Politics Today, distinguished political philosophers representing a diversity of approaches examine the meaning, relevance, and implications of Aristotle's political thought for contemporary social and political theory. The contributors engage a broad range of topics, including Aristotle's views on constitutionalism, the extension of Aristotelian ideas to issues in international relations, the place of Aristotelian virtue in modern democratic politics, and Aristotle's conception of justice.
Author : Eric Salem
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1589880501
What is friendship? What is the best life? How does one decide? Try Salem on Aristotle.
Author : Emma Cohen de Lara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 331964825X
This book is the first collection of essays in English devoted solely to the relationship between Aristotle’s ethics and politics. Are ethics and politics two separate spheres of action or are they unified? Those who support the unity-thesis emphasize the centrality for Aristotle of questions about the good life and the common good as the purpose of politics. Those who defend the separation-thesis stress Aristotle’s sense of realism in understanding the need for political solutions to human shortcomings. But is this all there is to it? The contributors to this volume explore and develop different arguments and interpretative frameworks that help to make sense of the relationship between Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics. The chapters loosely follow the order of the Nicomachean Ethics in examining topics such as political science, statesmanship and magnanimity, justice, practical wisdom, friendship, and the relationship between the active and the contemplative life. They have in common an appreciation of the relevance of Aristotle’s writings, which offer the modern reader distinct philosophical perspectives on the relationship between ethics and politics.
