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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965312203321

Autore

Garver Eugene

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006

ISBN

9786611956851

9781281956859

1281956856

9780226284019

0226284018

Descrizione fisica

IX,290 s

Disciplina

171/.3

Soggetti

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-275) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 for Aristotle these two distinct ideas-doing good and doing well-were one and the same and could be realized in a single life. In Confronting Aristotle's Ethics, Eugene Garver examines how we can draw this conclusion from Aristotle's works, while also studying how this conception