Download or read book A Critique of Aristotle s Doctrine of the Mean written by Edwin A. Katterhenry and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Virtue of Aristotle s Ethics written by Paula Gottlieb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Download or read book Nicomachean Ethics written by Aristotle and published by SDE Classics. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle written by Jiyuan Yu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives. It does not simply take one side as a framework to understand the other; rather, it takes them as mirrors for each other and seeks to develop new readings and perspectives of both ethics that would be unattainable if each were studied on its own.
Download or read book Aristotle s Doctrine of the Mean written by Misung Jang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACTVirtue, the core component of Aristotelian happiness (eudaimonia), is a mean. For Aristotle, happiness, literally meaning "living well and doing well," is the ultimate end. Aristotle defines happiness as "something complete and self-sufficient, since it is the end of the things achievable in action ... it is a certain sort of activity of the soul in accordance with virtue," and he then defines virtue as "a state concerned with choice, consisting in a mean state relative to us, a mean state determined by reason (logos), by which the person of practical wisdom would determine it." (NE1106a36-1107a2) Therefore, the mean is a significant concept in Aristotle's ethics. If we understand this concept better, we shall be able to understand his ethics better. The doctrine of the mean, central as it is, has given rise to numerous debates. It is often overlooked or underappreciated, by Aristotle scholars and virtue ethicists alike.^However, it must be unsatisfying for any philosopher who is interested in virtue ethics to appeal to an Aristotelian account of virtue on the one hand, but reject an essential piece of this theory on the other. The current situation with regard to the mean is chaotic, to say the least. In my diagnosis, there are so many debates because the study of the mean has been piecemeal; so far there has been no rigorous, in depth study of the doctrine of the mean in Aristotle. This following work is intended to fill the gap by providing an overall examination of the theory and a consideration of the debates within a larger context. This dissertation shall provide a systematic analysis of the concept of the mean--an analysis which is necessary for answering the main question of Aristotle's ethics: "how should we live?" The goal of Aristotle's ethical project "is not to know what virtue is, but to become good, since otherwise the inquiry would be of no benefit to us" (NE II.2).^The good life is a life of virtuous activity, and he strongly believes this life could not be possible without mean states we acquire. To become a virtuous person, one must attain the mean state--a state determined by practical wisdom rather than by following absolute moral rules--with regard to all of the various feelings and actions one encounters in daily life. Attaining this state is the goal of studying ethics. According to the doctrine of the mean, virtue is the mean state toward good activities, and a virtuous person behaves appropriately out of his mean state. This dissertation takes on four tasks: (1) Taking a historical approach, I consider the concept of the mean before Aristotle. The concept of the mean is not Aristotle's own invention, but has a long tradition. It is Aristotle's innovation, however, to draw the distinction between an arithmetical notion and an ethical mean. (2) I offer a systematic examination, focusing especially on NE II, 2, 5, and 6.^I examine the doctrine of the mean from the following four aspects - (i) mean state, (ii) mean in feelings and actions, (iii) mean relative to us, and (iv) practical wisdom. (3) I give an explanation of how the doctrine of the mean works with regard to particular virtues. Aristotle wants to apply the doctrine of the mean to each virtue; is he successful? By examining the mean for individual virtues like courage, temperance, and justice, I hope to achieve a better understanding of what the mean is.(4) I explore the impact of Aristotle's doctrine of the mean by comparing it with Confucius' doctrine of the mean. This points us in the direction of future debates. Key Words: Aristotle's doctrine of the mean * Virtue * Mean state * Practical wisdom * Confucian mean.
Download or read book The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics written by Richard Kraut and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethicsilluminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics andstudents new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays bydistinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors the organization of theNichomachean Ethics itself. Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, thedistinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness,self-control, and pleasure.
Download or read book Aristotle and Early Christian Thought written by Mark Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studies of early Christian thought, ‘philosophy’ is often a synonym for ‘Platonism’, or at most for ‘Platonism and Stoicism’. Nevertheless, it was Aristotle who, from the sixth century AD to the Italian Renaissance, was the dominant Greek voice in Christian, Muslim and Jewish philosophy. Aristotle and Early Christian Thought is the first book in English to give a synoptic account of the slow appropriation of Aristotelian thought in the Christian world from the second to the sixth century. Concentrating on the great theological topics – creation, the soul, the Trinity, and Christology – it makes full use of modern scholarship on the Peripatetic tradition after Aristotle, explaining the significance of Neoplatonism as a mediator of Aristotelian logic. While stressing the fidelity of Christian thinkers to biblical presuppositions which were not shared by the Greek schools, it also describes their attempts to overcome the pagan objections to biblical teachings by a consistent use of Aristotelian principles, and it follows their application of these principles to matters which lay outside the purview of Aristotle himself. This volume offers a valuable study not only for students of Christian theology in its formative years, but also for anyone seeking an introduction to the thought of Aristotle and its developments in Late Antiquity.
Download or read book Aristotle and the Virtues written by Howard J. Curzer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard J. Curzer presents a fresh new reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which brings each of the virtues alive. He argues that justice and friendship are symbiotic in Aristotle's view; reveals how virtue ethics is not only about being good, but about becoming good; and describes Aristotle's ultimate quest to determine happiness.
Download or read book Ethics written by J.L. Mackie and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1990-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. His refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity.
Download or read book Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy written by Bernard Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear 'Remarkably lively and enjoyable...It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty observations on topics encountered on the way.' - Times Literary Supplement Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy. Drawing on the ideas of the Greek philosophers, Williams reorients ethics away from a preoccupation with universal moral theories towards ‘truth, truthfulness and the meaning of an individual life’. He explores and reflects upon the most difficult problems in contemporary philosophy and identifies new ideas about central issues such as relativism, objectivity and the possibility of ethical knowledge. This edition also includes a commentary on the text by A.W.Moore. At the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was hailed by the Times as 'the outstanding moral philosopher of his age.' He taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Berkeley and Oxford and is the author of many influential books, including Morality; Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry (available from Routledge) and Truth and Truthfulness.
Download or read book Ethics With Aristotle written by Sarah Broadie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-30 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a close and comprehensive study of the main themes of Aristotle's ethics. Sarah Broadie concentrates on what he has to teach about happiness, virtue, voluntary agency, practical reason, incontinence, pleasure, and the place of theoria in the best life. Never forgetting that ethics for Aristotle is above all a practical enterprise, she sheds new light on ways in which this practical orientation affects both content and method of his inquiry. The book culminates in a sustained argument showing how even Aristotle's ideal of theoretic contemplation in integral to his essentially practical vision of human nature. Ethics with Aristotle is a major contribution toward the further understanding of Aristotle's ethics.
Download or read book Faces of Moderation written by Aurelian Craiutu and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the writings of twentieth-century thinkers such as Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Norberto Bobbio, Michael Oakeshott, and Adam Michnik, Faces of Moderation argues that moderation remains crucial for today's encounters with new forms of extremism.
Download or read book Aristotle and Natural Law written by Tony Burns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle and Natural Law lays out a new theoretical approach which distinguishes between the notions of 'interpretation,' 'appropriation,' 'negotiation' and 'reconstruction' of the meaning of texts and their component concepts. These categories are then deployed in an examination of the role which the concept of natural law is used by Aristotle in a number of key texts. The book argues that Aristotle appropriated the concept of natural law, first formulated by the defenders of naturalism in the 'nature versus convention debate' in classical Athens. Thereby he contributed to the emergence and historical evolution of the meaning of one of the most important concept in the lexicon of Western political thought. Aristotle and Natural Law argues that Aristotle's ethics is best seen as a certain type of natural law theory which does not allow for the possibility that individuals might appeal to natural law in order to criticize existing laws and institutions. Rather its function is to provide them with a philosophical justification from the standpoint of Aristotle's metaphysics.
Download or read book Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics written by Aristotle and published by Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation. Hackett Publishing Company is the exclusive distributor of the Bryn Mawr Commentaries in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
Download or read book Aristotle s Ethics and Medieval Philosophy written by Anthony Celano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics had a profound influence on generations of later philosophers, not only in the ancient era but also in the medieval period and beyond. In this book, Anthony Celano explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle's Ethics according to their own moral ideals. He argues that the moral standard for the Ethics is a human one, which is based upon the ethical tradition and the best practices of a given society. In the Middle Ages, this human standard was replaced by one that is universally applicable, since its foundation is eternal immutable divine law. Celano resolves the conflicting accounts of happiness in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, demonstrates the importance of the virtue of phronesis (practical wisdom), and shows how the medieval view of moral reasoning alters Aristotle's concept of moral wisdom.
Download or read book On the Generation of Animals written by Aristotle and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the Generation of Animals" from Aristotle. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
Download or read book Aristotle s Doctrine of the Mean written by J. O. Urmson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
