Nancy Sherman (ed.), Aristotle's Ethics: Critical Essays.

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Aristotle’s ethics emphasizes the value of reason and virtue for good moral character, as I have to agree with him. Virtue Ethics After reading Aristotle’s work on ethics and thinking about it for a few days, I realized that everything action we take and word we say falls under Virtue Ethics.

Aristotle was born to an aristocratic family in Stageira on the Chalcidice Peninsula of Macedonia (a region of northern Greece) in 384 B.C. His father, Nicomachus, was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon, and Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy. Aristotle's mother, Phaestis, came from Chalcis on the island of Euboea, and her family owned property there.

What are two fundamental assumptions of Aristotle's approach to ethics that are typical of most ancient Greek philosophers? 2. According to Aristotle, what is the relationship of politics and ethics, and what is the purpose of studying ethics? What limitations are there on the methodology of such a study? 3. What was Plato's view of the good?

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Journey, Important Relationships, Knowing.

For the past two decades, the Peter Martyr Society, together with Truman State University Press, has overseen the publication of English translations, in beautiful critical editions, of key works by Vermigli, a series called the Peter Martyr Library.Effective Jan. 1, 2018, The Davenant Institute acquired full rights to the series from TSUP.

Aristotle's father died when he was a boy, and Aristotle was left under the care of his guardian Proxenus. When Aristotle was seventeen, Proxenus sent him to study at Plato's Academy in Athens, the heart of the intellectual world at the time.

Aristotle’s Poetics is the first philosophical account of an art form and is the foundational text in the history of aesthetics. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Poetics is an accessible guide to this often dense and cryptic work.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most important ethical treatises ever written, and has had a profound influence on the subsequent development of ethics and moral psychology. This collection of essays, written by both senior and younger scholars in the field, presents a thorough and close examination of the work.

While reading Ethics for the New Millennium, the most appropriate text, which reminded me much of his holiness the Dalai Lama’s ideals, was Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Their views toward happiness and fulfilling a meaningful life were very similar, especially in the area of compassion and the ethics of virtue.

Aristotle’s ethics are thus part of his political philosophy. Just as an individual’s good action depends on her taking the right kinds of pleasures, so a thriving political community depends on citizens taking pleasure in one another’s actions. Such love of others and mutual pleasure are strictly speaking neither egoistic nor altruistic.

A new collection of thirteen essays, covering the reception of Aristotle's ethics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Provides both a history of reception and conceptual analysis for each figure or school. For students of philosophy and of the history of ethics and ideas.