Loving the Fine: Virtue and Happiness in Artistotle`s Ethics, Anna L?nnstr?m

Автор: Anna L?nnstr?m
Название: Loving the Fine: Virtue and Happiness in Artistotle`s Ethics
ISBN: 0268206414 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268206413
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Assuming that people want to be happy, can we show that they cannot be happy without being ethical, and that all rational people therefore should be able to see that it is in their own best interest to be ethical? Is it irrational to reject ethics? Aristotle thought so, claims Anna L?nnstr?m; but, she adds, he also thought that there was no way to prove it to a skeptic or an immoral person.

L?nnstr?m probes Aristotle's view that desire is crucial to decision making and to the formation of moral habits, pinpointing the "love of the fine" as the starting point of any argument for ethics. Those who love the fine can be persuaded that ethics is a crucial part of our happiness. However, as L?nnstr?m explains, the immoral person does not share this love, and therefore Aristotle denied that any argument would convince the immoral person to become good.

L?nnstr?m maintains that Aristotle's Ethics speaks not just to ancient Greeks but to all those who already love the fine, aiming to help them improve their self-understanding and encouraging them to become better human beings. As a consequence, Aristotelian ethics remain viable today.

Written in accessible and lucid prose, Loving the Fine contributes to the renewed interest in Aristotle's moral philosophy and will be of interest to students of virtue ethics and the history of philosophy.

Автор: Gottlieb, Paula (university Of Wisconsin, Madison)
Название: Artistotle on reason and feeling
ISBN: 1107041899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107041899
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Examines the relationship between thought, desire and feeling, a topic that has exercised philosophers, psychologists, writers of literature and now neuroscientists. Paula Gottlieb argues that Aristotle`s account is sui generis, and reveals important insights into moral education and human psychology.

Автор: Smith, Nicholas D. (lewis And Clark College, Portland)
Название: Socrates on self-improvement
ISBN: 1009012436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009012430
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Описание: What model of knowledge does Plato's Socrates use? In this book, Nicholas D. Smith argues that it is akin to knowledge of a craft which is acquired by degrees, rather than straightforward knowledge of facts. He contends that a failure to recognize and identify this model, and attempts to ground ethical success in contemporary accounts of propositional or informational knowledge, have led to distortions of Socrates' philosophical mission to improve himself and others in the domain of practical ethics. He shows that the model of craft-knowledge makes sense of a number of issues scholars have struggled to understand, and makes a case for attributing to Socrates a very sophisticated and plausible view of the improvability of the human condition.

Автор: Smith Nicholas D.
Название: Socrates on Self-Improvement: Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness
ISBN: 1316515532 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316515532
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
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Описание: This book explains in clear language with appropriate scholarly attention to detail how and why Socrates continues to be a foundational figure in western philosophy, and especially in ethics and epistemology. It argues that the craft-model of knowledge offers a viable and potent theoretical basis for practical and ethical self-improvement.