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Reading Aristotle's Ethics: Virtue, Rhetoric, and Political Philosophy

by Aristide Tessitore
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780791430484
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
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  • Pages: 168
  • Original Price: GBP 27.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 232 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction


Civic Virtue and Philosophy
The Rhetorical Dimension of Ethical Discourse
Interpretative Approach

1. The Audience of the Ethics, Book I


The Ethics in Context
Philosophic Readings of the Ethics
Political Readings of the Ethics
Aristotle's Dual Audience
The Useful Imprecision of Book I

2. The Virtues, Books II-VI


The Doctrine of Ethical Virtue
Ascent to Magnanimity
The Identity of the Magnanimous Person
Justice: Comprehensive Virtue and Proportional Equality
The Problem of Political Justice
The Need for Intellectual Virtue
The Competing Claims of Prudence and Wisdom

3. A New Beginning: Incontinence and Pleasure, Book VII


The New Horizon: Puzzle and Discovery
Incontinence: Clarifying Socrates' Ethical Paradox
Incontinence: Preserving Decent Opinion
Pleasure and Political Philosophy
Pleasure as End
Pleasure as the Supreme Good
Pleasure as Divine Activity

4. Virtue, Friendship, and Philsophy, Books VIII-IX


Turning to Friendship
Friendship and Virtue
Friendship and the City
Friendship and Nature
Friendship with Oneself
Political Friendship
Two Kinds of Self-Love
Friendship, Happiness, and Philosophy

5. Making the City Safe for Philosophy, Book X


Pleasure and Moral Education
Aristotle's New Description of Pleasure
Happiness and the Pleasures of the Powerful
Happiness and the Best Way of Life
One Consistent Teaching: Similar and Complementary Ways of Life
Two Inconsistent Teachings: Persistent Tension
Concluding Arguments: Gods, Moral Nobility, and the City
Consistent Inconsistency

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography of Cited Works

Index

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