Aristotle On Moral Responsibility
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Author | : Susan Sauvé Meyer |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-11-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199697434 |
This is a reissue, with new introduction, of Susan Sauvé Meyer's 1993 book which presents a striking interpretation of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. She argues that they constitute a distinctive theory of moral responsibility, and provides powerful responses to notorious puzzles in the account.
Author | : Javier Echeñique |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107021588 |
Echeñique discusses Aristotle's views on moral agency and voluntariness and presents a theory of moral responsibility that is both original and compelling.
Author | : Paula Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052176176X |
This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : SDE Classics |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781951570279 |
Author | : Lorraine Smith Pangle |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2020-10-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 022668833X |
What does it mean to live a good life or a happy life, and what part does reason play in the quest for fulfillment? Proceeding by means of a close and thematically selective commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, this book offers a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s teachings on the relation between reason and moral virtue. Pangle shows how Aristotle’s arguments for virtue as the core of happiness and for reason as the guide to virtue emerge in dialectical response to Socrates’s paradoxical claim that virtue is knowledge and vice is ignorance, and as part of a politically complex project of giving guidance to lawgivers and ordinary citizens while offering spurs to deep theoretical reflection. Against Socrates, Aristotle insists that both virtue and vice are voluntary and that individuals are responsible for their characters, a stance that lends itself to vigorous defense of moral responsibility. At the same time, Pangle shows, Aristotle elucidates the importance of unchosen concerns in shaping all that we do and the presence of some form of ignorance or subtle confusions in all moral failings. Thus the gap between his position and that of Socrates comes on close inspection to be much smaller than first appears, and his true teaching on the role of reason in shaping moral existence far more complex. The book offers fresh interpretations of Aristotle’s teaching on the relation of passions to judgments, on what it means to choose virtue for its own sake, on the way reason finds the mean, especially in justice, and on the crucial intellectual virtue of phronesis or active wisdom and its relation to theoretical wisdom. Offering answers to longstanding debates over the status of reason and the meaning of happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics, this book will kindle in readers a new appreciation for Aristotle’s lessons on how to make the most out of life, as individuals and in society.
Author | : Ronald Polansky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521192765 |
This volume provides a systematic guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, a key text of ancient philosophy, and Western philosophy in general.
Author | : David Mills Daniel |
Publisher | : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2007-06-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0334041317 |
Briefly: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a short summary of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics which is designed to assist university and school-leaving students in acquiring knowledge and understanding of this key text in the philosophy of religion. The book closely adheres to Aristotle's text, enabling the reader to follow each development in the argument as it occurs. Following the detailed summary which page references the original and includes useful key quotes, is a shorter summary acting as an overview of Nicomachean Ethics, which is intended to aid memory.
Author | : Charles H Patterson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2004-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0544179668 |
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. People have not changed significantly in the many years since Aristotle first lectured on ethics at the Lyceum in Athens. The human types and problems covered in CliffsNotes on Aristotle’s Ethics are familiar to everyone. The rules of conduct and explanations of virtue and goodness that he proposes can help people of all eras better understand their role in society. This study guide allows you to make your way through Aristotle’s famous essays with confidence. You’ll find clear summaries and explanations of each major theme. Other features that help you study include Introduction to the life of Aristotle Overview of the main points of Aristotle’s ethical philosophy Summaries and critical commentaries of the complete Nichomachean Ethics Review questions Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
Author | : Susan Sauvé Meyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199697427 |
This is a reissue, with new introduction, of Susan Sauve Meyer's 1993 book, in which she presents a comprehensive examination of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. She makes the case that these constitute a theory of moral responsibility--albeit one with important differences from modern theories. Highlights of the discussion include a reconstruction of the dialectical argument in the Eudemian Ethics II 6-9, and a demonstration that the definitions of 'voluntary' and 'involuntary' in Nicomachean Ethics III 1 are the culmination of that argument. By identifying the paradigms of voluntariness and involuntariness that Aristotle begins with and the opponents (most notably Plato) he addresses, Meyer explains notoriously puzzling features of the Nicomachean account--such as Aristotle's requirement that involuntary agents experience pain or regret. Other familiar features of Aristotle's account are cast in a new light. That we are responsible for the characters we develop turns out not to be a necessary condition of responsible agency. That voluntary action has its "origin" in the agent and that our actions are "up to us to do and not to do"--often interpreted as implying a libertarian conception of agency--turn out to be perfectly compatible with causal determinism, a point Meyer makes by locating these locutions in the context of Aristotle's general understanding of causality. While Aristotle does not himself face or address worries that determinism is incompatible with responsibility, his causal repertoire provides the resources for a powerful response to incompatibilist arguments. On this and other fronts Aristotle's is a view to be taken seriously by theorists of moral responsibility.
Author | : Isaac Gregory Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1886 |
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