Confronting Aristotle's Ethics : ancient and modern morality / / Eugene Garver
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| Autore: |
Garver Eugene
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| Titolo: |
Confronting Aristotle's Ethics : ancient and modern morality / / Eugene Garver
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | IX,290 s |
| Disciplina: | 171/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethics |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Confronting Aristotle's Ethics |
| ISBN: | 9786611956851 |
| 9781281956859 | |
| 1281956856 | |
| 9780226284019 | |
| 0226284018 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910965312203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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