Virtue And Reason In Plato And Aristotle
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Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle
Author | : A. W. Price |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198709358 |
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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.
Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle
Author | : A.W. Price |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199609616 |
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A.W. Price explores the views of Plato and Aristotle on how virtue of character and practical reasoning enable agents to achieve eudaimonia--the state of living or acting well. He provides a full philosophical analysis and argues that the perennial question of action within human life is central to the reflections of these ancient philosophers.
Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle
Author | : A. W. Price |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:963882574 |
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Nicomachean Ethics
Author | : Aristotle |
Publsiher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781425000868 |
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Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.
Nicomachean Ethics
Author | : Aristotle |
Publsiher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 153978438X |
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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.
The Virtue of Aristotle s Ethics
Author | : Paula Gottlieb |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521761765 |
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This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Virtues of Thought
Author | : Aryeh Kosman |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-03-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780674416444 |
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Exploring what two foundational figures, Plato and Aristotle, have to say about the nature of human awareness and understanding, Aryeh Kosman concludes that ultimately the virtues of thought are to be found in the joys and satisfactions that come from thinking philosophically, whether we engage in it ourselves or witness others' participation.
Reason and Human Good in Aristotle
Author | : John M. Cooper,John Madison Cooper |
Publsiher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0872200221 |
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"Reason and Human Good in Aristotle opens up issues of interpretation which are as alive today as when it originally appeared. After almost two decades of extraordinary influence, this succinct book remains a 'must' for any serious bibliography of Aristotle's Ethics." -- Sarah Broadie, Princeton University