Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics

Forty years after its original publication, Liberty Fund brings back to print Henry Veatch’s path-breaking popular presentation of virtue ethics. This modern interpretation of Aristotelian ethics is a natural for undergraduate philosophy courses. It is also an engaging work for the expert and the beginner alike, offering a middle ground between existential and analytic ethics. Veatch argue…

Values and virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics

After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound and he continues to be a very important contributor to contemporary debates in philosophical ethics. This collection showcases some of the best new writing on the Aristotelian notion of virtue of character, which remains central to much of the most interesting work in ethical theory.

Aristotle's Ethics: Moral Development and Human Nature

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is devoted to the topic of human happiness. Yet, although Aristotle's conception of happiness is central to his whole philosophical project, there is much controversy surrounding it. Hope May offers a new interpretation of Aristotle's account of happiness - one which incorporates Aristotle's views about the biological development of human beings. May argues that…

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle on Ethics

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a central text in the history of western philosophy. It continues to be at the heart of contemporary moral theory and essential to understanding the development of ethical thought in the West. This volume offers students an accessible guide to Aristotle's ethics. It explains the key elements in Aristotle's terminology and highlights the controversy regarding th…

The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics

While Aristotle's account of the happy life continues to receive attention, many of his claims about virtue of character seem so puzzling that modern philosophers have often discarded them, or have reworked them to fit more familiar theories that do not make virtue of character central. In this book, Paula Gottlieb takes a fresh look at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrin…

Aristotle's Ethics

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ISBN/ISSN

0631156379

Deskripsi Fisik

130 pg.; 21 cm.

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171.3 URM a