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Confronting Aristotle's Ethics

Name: Confronting Aristotle's Ethics
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226283982
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Ancient and Modern Morality

Autor: Eugene Garver

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some m...

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Autor

Eugene Garver

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2006

Pagini

328

EAN

9780226283982

ISBN

0226283984

Enbook ID

04545014

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

546

Dimensiuni

163 x 235 x 24

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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 of the good life relates to contemporary ideas ofmorality. The key to Aristotle's views on ethics, argues Garver, lies in the "Metaphysics" or, more specifically, in his thoughts on activities, actions, and capacities."" For Aristotle, Garver shows, it is only possible to be truly active when acting for the common good, and it is only possible to be truly happy when active to the extent of one's own powers. But does this mean we should aspire to Aristotle's impossibly demanding vision of the good life? In a word, no. Garver stresses the enormous gap between life in Aristotle's time and ours. As a result, this book""will be a welcome rumination on not only Aristotle, but the relationship between the individual and society in everyday life.