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Aristotle on the sources of the ethical life /

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This work challenges the common belief that Aristotle's virtue ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appeal that is thought to be intended to provide both substantive ethical advice and justification for the demands of ethics. It is argued that it is not Aristotle's intent, bu...

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Main Author: Berryman, Sylvia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Series:Oxford Aristotle studies.
Subjects:
Aristotle. > Nicomachean ethics.
Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
Ethics, Ancient.
Morale ancienne.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics, Ancient
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Aristotle in the ethic wars
  • Nature and the sources of normativity
  • Is Aristotle an Archimedean naturalist?
  • Naturalism in Aristotle's politics
  • The case against a naturalist reading
  • Aristotle's metaethics
  • The practical good
  • CODA Aristitle and the practical turn.