Confronting Aristotle's Ethics [electronic resource] : ancient and modern morality / Eugene Garver.

By: Garver, Eugene
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: ix, 290 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0226283984 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226283982Subject(s): Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics | EthicsDDC classification: 171/.3 LOC classification: B430 | .G37 2006
Contents:
Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --List of Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works --Introduction --Chapter 1. What Aristotle's Rhetoric Can Tell Us about the Rationality of Virtue --Chapter 2. Decision, Rational Powers, and Irrational Powers --Chapter 3. The Varieties of Moral Failure --Chapter 4. Passion and the Two Sides of Virtue --Chapter 5. Aristotle's Ethical Virtues Are Political Virtues --Chapter 6. The Ethical Dimensions of Aristotle's Metaphysics --Chapter 7. Living Politically and Living Rationally: Choosing Ends and Choosing Lives --Notes --Name Index --Index of Passages in Aristotle's Works
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-275) and indexes.

Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --List of Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works --Introduction --Chapter 1. What Aristotle's Rhetoric Can Tell Us about the Rationality of Virtue --Chapter 2. Decision, Rational Powers, and Irrational Powers --Chapter 3. The Varieties of Moral Failure --Chapter 4. Passion and the Two Sides of Virtue --Chapter 5. Aristotle's Ethical Virtues Are Political Virtues --Chapter 6. The Ethical Dimensions of Aristotle's Metaphysics --Chapter 7. Living Politically and Living Rationally: Choosing Ends and Choosing Lives --Notes --Name Index --Index of Passages in Aristotle's Works

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.

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