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Aristotle's Discovery of the Human - Mary P. Nichols

Aristotle's Discovery of the Human

Piety and Politics in the "Nicomachean Ethics"

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Buch | Softcover
356 Seiten
2025
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-20546-1 (ISBN)
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Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human offers a fresh, illuminating, and accessible analysis of one of the Western philosophical tradition’s most important texts.


In Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human, noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols explores the ways in which Aristotle brings the gods and the divine into his “philosophizing about human affairs” in his Nicomachean Ethics. Her analysis shows that, for Aristotle, both piety and politics are central to a flourishing human life. Aristotle argues that piety provides us not only an awareness of our kinship to the divine, and hence elevates human life, but also an awareness of a divinity that we cannot entirely assimilate or fathom. Piety therefore supports a politics that strives for excellence at the same time that it checks excess through a recognition of human limitation.


Proceeding through each of the ten books of the Ethics, Nichols shows that this prequel to Aristotle’s Politics is as theoretical as it is practical. Its goal of improving political life and educating citizens and statesmen is inseparable from its pursuit of the truth about human beings and their relation to the divine. In the final chapter, which turns to contemporary political debate, Nichols’s suggestion of the possibility of supplementing and deepening liberalism on Aristotelian grounds is supported by the account of human nature, virtue, friendship, and community developed throughout her study of the Ethics.

Mary P. Nichols is professor emerita in the Department of Political Science at Baylor University. She is the author of seven books, including Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom.

Acknowledgements


Introduction


1. Our Unfinished Humanity: A Divine Gift (Book 1)


2. Ethical Virtue: Nature, Character, and Choice (Books 2-3)


3. The Virtues of Living Together (Book 4)


4. A Shrine to the Graces: Justice and Tragedy (Book 5)


5. Intellectual Virtue: Prudence, Wisdom, and Philosophy (Book 6)


6. Human Strength and Divine Perfection (Book 7)


7. Friendship: Family, Political Community, and Philosophy (Books 8-9)


8. Divine Thoughts and Political Reform (Book 10)


Conclusion: Aristotelian Piety for a Liberal Politics

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.2.2025
Verlagsort Notre Dame IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-268-20546-9 / 0268205469
ISBN-13 978-0-268-20546-1 / 9780268205461
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