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Author Berryman, Sylvia, author.

Title Aristotle on the sources of the ethical life / Sylvia Berryman
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Series Oxford Aristotle studies
Oxford Aristotle studies.
Contents Introduction -- Aristotle in the ethic wars -- Nature and the sources of normativity -- Is Aristotle an Archimedean naturalist? -- Naturalism in Aristotle's politics -- The case against a naturalist reading -- Aristotle's metaethics -- The practical good -- CODA Aristitle and the practical turn
Summary This work challenges the common belief that Aristotle's virtue 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. It is argued that it is not Aristotle's intent, but the view is resisted that Aristotle was blind to questions of the source or justification of his ethical views. Aristotle's views are interpreted 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. This approach is compared to constructivism in contemporary ethics. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 5, 2019)
Subject Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.
SUBJECT Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle) fast
Subject Ethics, Ancient.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics, Ancient
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191876561
0191876569
9780192571915
0192571915