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Confronting Aristotle's Ethics

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301 Seiten
2014 | New ed.
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-28401-9 (ISBN)
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What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicitavery different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing goodOCoimproving oneOCOs community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing wellOCocultivating oneOCOs own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideasOCodoing good and doing wellOCowere one and the same and could be realized in a single life. In "Confronting AristotleOCOs Ethics, " Eugene Garver examines how we can draw this conclusion from Aristotle's works, while also studying how this conception of the good life relates to contemporary ideas ofmorality. The key to AristotleOCOs views on ethics, argues Garver, liesain the "Metaphysics" or, more specifically, in his thoughts on activities, actions, and capacities."" For Aristotle, Garver shows, it is only possible to be truly active when acting for the common good, and it is only possible to be truly happy when active to the extent of oneOCOs own powers. But does this mean we should aspire to AristotleOCOs impossibly demandingavision of the good life? In a word, no. Garver stressesathe enormous gap between life in AristotleOCOs time and ours. As a result, this book" "will be a welcome rumination on not only Aristotle, but the relationship between the individual and society in everyday life. "
Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.5.2014
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
ISBN-10 0-226-28401-8 / 0226284018
ISBN-13 978-0-226-28401-9 / 9780226284019
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