Confronting Aristotle's Ethics : ancient and modern morality

Confronting Aristotle's Ethics : ancient and modern morality / Eugene Garver.

What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good?improving one?s community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well?cultivating one?s own abilities in a meaningful way. But f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garver, Eugene
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Aristotle. > Nicomachean ethics.
Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
Ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
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Table of Contents:
  • What Aristotle's Rhetoric can tell us about the rationality of virtue
  • Decision, rational powers, and irrational powers
  • The varieties of moral failure
  • Passion and the two sides of virtue
  • Aristotle's ethical virtues are political virtues
  • The ethical dimensions of Aristotle's Metaphysics
  • Living politically and living rationally : choosing ends and choosing lives.

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