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Confronting Aristotle's Ethics

- Ancient and Modern Morality
Af: Eugene Garver Engelsk Hardback

Confronting Aristotle's Ethics

- Ancient and Modern Morality
Af: Eugene Garver Engelsk Hardback
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What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicitvery 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 of morality. The key to Aristotle's views on ethics, argues Garver, liesin 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 demandingvision of the good life? In a word, no. Garver stressesthe enormous gap between life in Aristotle's time and ours. As a result, this bookwill be a welcome rumination on not only Aristotle, but the relationship between the individual and society in everyday life.
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What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicitvery 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 of morality. The key to Aristotle's views on ethics, argues Garver, liesin 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 demandingvision of the good life? In a word, no. Garver stressesthe enormous gap between life in Aristotle's time and ours. As a result, this bookwill be a welcome rumination on not only Aristotle, but the relationship between the individual and society in everyday life.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 328
ISBN-13: 9780226283982
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0226283984
Kategori: Antikkens filosofi
Udg. Dato: 1 sep 2006
Længde: 2mm
Bredde: 16mm
Højde: 24mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 1 sep 2006
Forfatter(e): Eugene Garver
Forfatter(e) Eugene Garver


Kategori Antikkens filosofi


ISBN-13 9780226283982


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 328


Udgave


Længde 2mm


Bredde 16mm


Højde 24mm


Udg. Dato 1 sep 2006


Oplagsdato 1 sep 2006


Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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