Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The ethics of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), and virtue ethics in general, have enjoyed a resurgence of interest over the past few decades. Aristotelian themes, with such issues as the importance of friendship and emotions in a good life, the role of moral perception in wise choice, the nature of happiness and its constitution, moral education and habituation, are finding an important place in contemporary moral debates. Taken together, the essays in this volume provide a close analysis of central arguments in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and show the enduring interest of the questions Aristotle raises.
Synopsis
The ethics of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), and virtue ethics in general, have seen a resurgence of interest over the past few decades. No longer do utilitarianism and Kantian ethics on their own dominate the moral landscape. In addition, Aristotelian themes fill out that landscape, with such issues as the importance of friendship and emotions in a good life, the role of moral perception in wise choice, the nature of happiness and its constitution, moral education and habituation, finding a stable home in contemporary moral debate. The essays in this volume represent the best of that debate. Taken together, they provide a close analysis of central arguments in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. But they do more than that. Each shows the enduring interest of the questions Aristotle himself subtly and complexly raises in the context of his own contemporary discussions.
Synopsis
The essays in this volume provide a close analysis of central arguments in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
Table of Contents
Permanent happiness : Aristotle and Solon /T.H. Irwin --Aristotle on virtue and happiness /Julia Annas --Aristotle on eudaimonia /J.L. Ackrill --Aristotle on the human good : an overview /Richard Kraut --False doctrine of the mean /Rosalind Hursthouse --Virtue and reason /John McDowell --Discernment of perception : an Aristotelian conception of private and public rationality /Martha C. Nussbaum --Aristotle on akrasia, eudaimonia, and the psychology of action /Alfred R. Mele --Aristotle on learning to be good /M.F. Burnyeat --Habituation of character /Nancy Sherman --Being properly affected : virtues and feelings in Aristotle's Ethics /L.A. Kosman --Friendship and the good in Aristotle /John M. Cooper --Feminism and Aristotle's rational ideal /Marcia L. Homiak.