Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life 1st Edition Sylvia Berryman

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198835000
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198835004
• Author(s): Sylvia Berryman

Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life challenges the common belief that Aristotle’s ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appeal that is thought to be intended to provide both substantive ethical advice and justification for the demands of ethics. Sylvia Berryman argues that this is not Aristotle’s intent, while resisting the view that Aristotle was blind to questions of the source or justification of his ethical views. She interprets Aristotle’s views as a ‘middle way’ between the metaphysical grounding offered by Platonists, and the scepticism or subjectivist alternatives articulated by others. The commitments implicit in the nature of action figure prominently in this account: Aristotle reinterprets Socrates’ famous paradox that no-one does evil willingly, taking it to mean that a commitment to pursuing the good is implicit in the very nature of action.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. Aristotle in the Ethic Wars
3. Nature and the Sources of Normativity
4. Is Aristotle an Archimedean Naturalist?
5. Naturalism in Aristotle’s Politics
6. The Case against a Naturalist Reading
7. Aristotle’s Metaethics
8. The Practical Good
Subject Index

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