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| Author | : Naomi Reshotko |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 5 |
| Release | : 2006-08-03 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139458078 |
Download Socratic Virtue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Socrates was not a moral philosopher. Instead he was a theorist who showed how human desire and human knowledge complement one another in the pursuit of human happiness. His theory allowed him to demonstrate that actions and objects have no value other than that which they derive from their employment by individuals who, inevitably, desire their own happiness and have the knowledge to use actions and objects as a means for its attainment. The result is a naturalised, practical, and demystified account of good and bad, and right and wrong. Professor Reshotko presents a freshly envisioned Socratic theory residing at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and ethics. It makes an important contribution to the study of the Platonic dialogues and will also interest all scholars of ethics and moral psychology.
| Author | : Aristotle |
| Publisher | : SDE Classics |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781951570279 |
Download Nicomachean Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Joachim Aufderheide |
| Publisher | : Mind Association Occasional |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0198714017 |
Download The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape. The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation given that their approaches to ethics are commonly conceived as being diametrically opposed. The essays in this collection provide a comprehensive treatment of the highest good in Aristotle and Kant and show that, even though there are important differences in terms of content, there are also important similarities in terms of the structural features of Aristotle's and Kant's value theories. By carefully analysing Aristotle's and Kant's theories of the highest good, a team of experts in the field shed light on their respective ethical theories and highlight the richness, complexity, and fruitfulness of the notion of the highest good.
| Author | : Paula Gottlieb |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2009-04-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 052176176X |
Download The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
| Author | : Lorraine Smith Pangle |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2014-05-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 022613668X |
Download Virtue Is Knowledge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker? Lorraine Smith Pangle traces the argument for the primacy of virtue and the power of knowledge throughout the five dialogues that feature them most prominently—the Apology, Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, and Laws—and reveals the truth at the core of these seemingly strange claims. She argues that Socrates was more aware of the complex causes of human action and of the power of irrational passions than a cursory reading might suggest. Pangle’s perceptive analyses reveal that many of Socrates’s teachings in fact explore the factors that make it difficult for humans to be the rational creatures that he at first seems to claim. Also critical to Pangle’s reading is her emphasis on the political dimensions of the dialogues. Underlying many of the paradoxes, she shows, is a distinction between philosophic and civic virtue that is critical to understanding them. Ultimately, Pangle offers a radically unconventional way of reading Socrates’s views of human excellence: Virtue is not knowledge in any ordinary sense, but true virtue is nothing other than wisdom.
| Author | : Ryan Holiday |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2016-10-18 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0735211744 |
Download The Daily Stoic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.
| Author | : Jiyuan Yu |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2013-05-24 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1136748482 |
Download The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives. It does not simply take one side as a framework to understand the other; rather, it takes them as mirrors for each other and seeks to develop new readings and perspectives of both ethics that would be unattainable if each were studied on its own.
| Author | : Gabriel Richardson Lear |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2009-01-10 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 140082608X |
Download Happy Lives and the Highest Good Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues--courage and generosity, for example--that are not in any obvious way either manifestations of philosophical contemplation or subordinated to it. They argue that Aristotle was inconsistent, and that we should not try to read the entire Ethics as an attempt to flesh out the notion that the best life aims at the "monistic good" of contemplation. In defending the unity and coherence of the Ethics, Lear argues that, in Aristotle's view, we may act for the sake of an end not just by instrumentally bringing it about but also by approximating it. She then argues that, for Aristotle, the excellent rational activity of moral virtue is an approximation of theoretical contemplation. Thus, the happiest person chooses moral virtue as an approximation of contemplation in practical life. Richardson Lear bolsters this interpretation by examining three moral virtues--courage, temperance, and greatness of soul--and the way they are fine. Elegantly written and rigorously argued, this is a major contribution to our understanding of a central issue in Aristotle's moral philosophy.
| Author | : Michael Hickey |
| Publisher | : University Press of America |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2011-06-16 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 0761854576 |
Download Get Goodness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the preface: This book looks at virtue as "the power to do good" from the theological, philosophical, and poetic perspective. From a theological perspective: Long ago, Anselm defined theology as "faith seeking understanding," (f. 1) a definition which has endured to the present day. It would be difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to try to understand virtue or goodness without looking through some lens of faith....Get Goodness was written, in part, because my own faith was seeking understanding. Second, this book will look at virtue and goodness from a philosophical perspective because the word "philosophy" (from the Greek philos + sophia) means "love of wisdom." (f.2)...As we will find in this book, the virtue of love has been understood by most theologians and philosophers before me to be the essence of each and every virtue. Therefore, we must first love wisdom before we are able to practically discern, distinguish, deliberate and decide prudently in any effort to understand how virtue is the power to do good.... Third, this book will be suffused with poetry....because poetry is a language that goes beyond logic, thought, and reason.... It is a language of the spirit and a language of human life, love, observation, and experience....Any poem is an attempt to try to understand the experience of the world and the universe around us in spiritual terms. None of us should be seeking virtuous perfection in orienting ourselves to the good in this life; we should only be seeking change. The journey is the goal.
| Author | : Michael Raymond DePaul |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199219125 |
Download Intellectual Virtue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention and there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. This book fills a gap in the literature for a text that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together."-- Back cover.
