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Item Details
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ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS
MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN NATURE |
| By: |
Hope May |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£130.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0826491103 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780826491107 |
| Publisher: |
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 2009 |
| Series: |
Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy |
| Pages: |
204 |
| Description: |
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is devoted to the topic of human happiness. This book examines Aristotle's views on ethics and human nature, an issue central to his thought. It offers a fresh interpretation of Aristotle's account of happiness - one which incorporates Aristotle's views about the biological development of human beings. |
| Synopsis: |
This book examines Aristotle's views on ethics and human nature, an issue central to the thought of this hugely important and influential philosopher. Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is devoted to the topic of human happiness. Yet, although Aristotle's conception of happiness is central to his whole philosophical project, there is much controversy surrounding it. Hope May offers a new interpretation of Aristotle's account of happiness - one which incorporates Aristotle's views about the biological development of human beings. May argues that the relationship amongst the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and happiness, is best understood through the lens of developmentalism. On this view, happiness emerges from the cultivation of a number of virtues that are developmentally related. May goes on to show how contemporary scholarship in psychology, ethical theory and legal philosophy signals a return to Aristotelian ethics. Specifically, May shows how a theory of motivation known as Self-Determination Theory and recent research on goal attainment have deep affinities to Aristotle's ethical theory.May argues that this recent work can ground a contemporary virtue theory that acknowledges the centrality of autonomy in a way that captures the fundamental tenets of Aristotle's ethics. |
| Illustrations: |
1 |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Continuum Publishing Corporation |
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Non-returnable |
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