Cognition of value in Aristotle's ethics [[electronic resource] ] : promise of enrichment, threat of destruction / / Deborah Achtenberg

• Autore: Achtenberg Deborah <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 171/.3
• Soggetto topico: Ethics, Ancient
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Valuable Particulars -- Ethics and Moral Theory -- Ethics and Metaphysics -- The Mean -- Analogy, Habit, Beauty, Unexpectedness -- Emotions as Perceptions of Value -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With this new interpretation, Deborah Achtenberg argues that metaphysics is central to ethics for Aristotle and that the ethics can be read on two levels—imprecisely, in terms of its own dialectically grounded and imprecise claims, or in terms of the metaphysical terms and concepts that give the ethics greater articulation and depth. She argues that concepts of value—the good and the beautiful—are central to ethics for Aristotle and that they can be understood in terms of telos where 'telos' can be construed to mean 'enriching limitation' and contrasted with harmful or destructive limitation. Achtenberg argues that the imprecision of ethics for Aristotle results not simply from the fact that ethics has to do with particulars, but more centrally from the fact that it has to do with the value of particulars. She presents new interpretations of a wide variety of passages in Aristotle's metaphysical, physical, psychological, rhetorical, political, and ethical works in support of her argument and compares Aristotle's views to those of Plato, Marcus Aurelius, the Hebrew Bible, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Freud, and twentieth-century object relations theorists. Achtenberg also responds to interpretations of Aristotle's ethics by McDowell, Nussbaum, Sherman, Salkever, Williams, Annas, Irwin, Roche, Gomez-Lobo, Burnyeat, and Anagnostopoulos.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cognition of value in Aristotle's ethics
• ISBN: 0-7914-8863-2; 0-585-47120-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814383603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II