Aristotle's Ethics

✍ Scribed by Paula Gottlieb

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 80
• Series: Elements in Ethics
• Edition: New
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This Element is an examination of the philosophical themes presented in Aristotle's Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics. Topics include happiness, the voluntary and choice, the doctrine of the mean, particular virtues of character and temperamental means, virtues of thought, akrasia, pleasure, friendship, and luck. Special attention has been paid to Aristotle's treatment of virtues of character and thought and their relation to happiness, the reason why Aristotle is the quintessential virtue ethicist. The virtues of character have not received the attention they deserve in most discussions of the relationship between the two treatises.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Aristotle’s Ethics: Nicomachean and Eudemian Themes
Contents
Introduction
1 Happiness
1.1 The Method of Endoxa
1.1.1 Aristotle on Plato’s Views
1.2 The Teleological Approach
1.3 The Biological and Psychological Approach
1.4 The Method of Endoxa Again
1.4.1 Solon, Luck, and External Goods
1.5 The Three Approaches in the Eudemian Ethics
2 Virtue of Character and the Doctrine of the Mean
3 The Voluntary and Choice
3.1 The Voluntary
3.2 Choice
4 Virtues of Character and Temperamental Means
4.1 Bravery
4.2 Temperance
4.3 Generosity
4.4 Magnificence
4.5 Magnanimity and the Virtue Concerned with Honor on a Small Scale
4.6 Calmness
4.7 Friendliness
4.8 Dignity
4.9 Truthfulness
4.10 Wit
4.11 Shame and Proper Indignation (Nemesis)
4.12 Endurance
5 Justice
6 Virtues of Thought
7 Akrasia and Pleasure
7.1 Akrasia
7.2 Pleasure
8 Friendship
9 Sophistic Puzzles, the Kaloskagathos, and Luck
10 Happiness Revisited
Conclusion
Glossary of Key Terms
References
Acknowledgments