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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Richard Kraut (ed.)
Wiley-Blackwell (2006)
Abstract
_The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics_ illuminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself. Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, the distinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness, self-control, and pleasureAuthor's Profile
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2008
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B430.B53 2006
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9781405153140 9780470799994 9781405120203 9781405120210 1405120207 1405120215 1405153148
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Many students of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics recognize the value of comparisons between Aristotle and modern moralists. We are familiar with some of the ways in which reflection on Hume, Kant, Mill, Sidgwick, and more recent moral theorists can throw light on Aristotle. The light may come either from recognition of similarities or from a sharper awareness of differences.“Themes ancient and modern” is a familiar part of the contemporary study of Aristotle that needs no further commendation. [REVIEW]Natural Law Aquinas & Aristotelian Eudaimonism
Aristotle makes the controversial claim that it is impossible to have all the ethical virtues–bravery, temperance, generosity, magnificence, magna-nimity, the virtue concerned with honor on a small scale, mildness, truth-fulness, wit, friendliness, and justice–fully without having practical wisdom (phronesis), and that it is impossible to have practical wisdom without having all of the Aristotelian ethical virtues fully (NE VI. 13.1144 b30–1145a1). This raises a puzzle about what sort of reason is ... [REVIEW]Paula Gottlieb
The Nicomachean Ethics is framed by a beginning (NEI. 1–3) and an ending (NE X. 9) which, in rather different ways, communicate a single message: politics is the activity and branch of study that deals with the subject matter of the work. For us, ethics and politics signify two distinct, if overlapping, spheres. For Aristotle, there is just one sphere–politics–conceived in ethical terms. This startling truth is generally downplayed (if not totally ignored) in many presenta-tions of the Nicomachean ... [REVIEW]Malcolm Schofield
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Aristotle on the Voluntary.Susan Sauvé Meyer - 2006 - In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Blackwell. pp. 137-157.
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