Reason and Character
Subtitle: The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780226688169
Subjects: Aristotle; Ethics
Description: "This book is a fresh examination of Aristotle's teaching on the relation between reason and moral virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics, taking as its point of departure the oft-noted, but still perhaps not sufficiently appreciated fact, that this treatise is the first half of a two-volume work on political science. As such, it lays the foundation for Aristotelian political science and, in significant ways, for the field of political science altogether. The proper aim of the political community according to Aristotle is to promote the human good; it is the task of the Nicomachean Ethics to elaborate what this good is. It provides Aristotle's fullest answer to the most radical question about justice, the question of why we should be just or moral at all, in its teaching on the essential relation of virtue to happiness"--