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Habituation in Aristotle's Ethics: The Eudemian Ethics, the Common Books, the Nicomachean Ethics
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 59, Number 4, October 2021
- pp. 531-557
- 10.1353/hph.2021.0066
- Article
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Abstract
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In this paper I contend that there is a significant divergence between Aristotle's Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics when it comes to the importance of, and the role attributed to, habit and habituation in the development of virtue. More specifically, I argue that Aristotle's theory of habituation as developed in EN II.1–4 is unparalleled in the EE. The latter presents evidence of a different view on habituation and the role thereof. In the second part of my contribution, I further use this conclusion to associate the so-called common books with the Eudemian Ethics.
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