Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered : Phenomenological Ethics.

Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered : Phenomenological Ethics.

This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and ev...

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Main Author: Kontos, Pavlos
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Subjects:
Aristotle. > Nicomachean ethics.
Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
Moral realism.
Phenomenology.
phenomenology.
Moral realism
Phenomenology
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Summary:This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and evil-that is, before any reference to specific ethical outlooks-one should explain the very materiality of what necessarily constitutes the 'moral world'. These claims are substantiated by means of a text- centered interpretation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in dialogue with contempor.
Physical Description:1 online resource (211 pages)
ISBN:9780203805695
0203805690
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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