This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant reassessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics. The contributors include internationally recognized interpreters of ancient and modern ethics.
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'Importantly, old stereotypes, or conventional wisdom, about the differences between ancient and modern ethics, especially between Aristotle and Kant, are challenged, exposing possible unities (and historical influences) that tradition has overlooked. However, superficial similarities are also probed and sometimes shown to mask deep remaining differences. The papers call attention to, as well as represent, a quite remarkable contemporary revival of important philosophical/scholarly treatment of the history of ethics, and the authors are, without exception, major players in this movement.' Thomas E. Hill, Jr, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant reassessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics. The contributors include internationally recognised interpreters of ancient and modern ethics.
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This book will probably only be of interest to students of philosophy who already have a background in Aristotle and Kant. For any philosopher interested in comparing and contrasting Aristotle and Kant, this book is of immense value. All of the essays are clear and well argued. There is, I must warn, a decent amount of Kantian readings of Aristotle in this book, and this may get under your skin if you're like me and believe that Aristotle is as much like Kant as Ayn Rand is like Karl Marx. Nonetheless, every claim is well argued for, which makes it an even better tool for trying to defend the traditional view.
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Umm, where are the other voices?,
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This review is from: Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty (Paperback)
This book typically excludes the incredible variety and richness of African philosophy, which was in part stolen by the 'Greeks'. In any event, I guess we are supposed to believe that white male definitions of 'happiness' are exactly the same as that of everyone else? Shame on the editors of this unworthy book.
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In this essay, I try to set out an understanding of distinctively ethical application that Aristotle evidently wants to make of the notion of deliberation (bouleusis). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
naturally sympathetic person, strict goodness, nonmoral reasoning, unnamed counterpart, deliberative field, authoritative virtue, prudential imperatives, desiderative element, lawlike form, ancient ethical theories, constitutive luck, objective determining ground, action moral worth, contested goods, mere goodness, nonmoral goods, blueprint picture, supreme practical principle, unsociable sociability, moral competition, nonmoral reasons, agreement with nature, external prosperity, nonrational part, dutiful person Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Diogenes Laertius, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Nicomachean Ethics, New York, The Morality of Happiness, Critique of Practical Reason, Magna Moralia, Julia Annas, Eudemian Ethics, Jennifer Whiting, Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University Press, Barbara Herman, Limits of Reason Alone, Bernard Williams, John Cooper, Stephen Engstrom, Andrews Reath, Creating the Kingdom of Ends, Gisela Striker, Princeton University Press, Sarah Broadie, Terence Irwin, The Hellenistic Philosophers New!
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In this essay, I try to set out an understanding of distinctively ethical application that Aristotle evidently wants to make of the notion of deliberation (bouleusis). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
naturally sympathetic person, strict goodness, nonmoral reasoning, unnamed counterpart, deliberative field, authoritative virtue, prudential imperatives, desiderative element, lawlike form, ancient ethical theories, constitutive luck, objective determining ground, action moral worth, contested goods, mere goodness, nonmoral goods, blueprint picture, supreme practical principle, unsociable sociability, moral competition, nonmoral reasons, agreement with nature, external prosperity, nonrational part, dutiful person Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Diogenes Laertius, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Nicomachean Ethics, New York, The Morality of Happiness, Critique of Practical Reason, Magna Moralia, Julia Annas, Eudemian Ethics, Jennifer Whiting, Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University Press, Barbara Herman, Limits of Reason Alone, Bernard Williams, John Cooper, Stephen Engstrom, Andrews Reath, Creating the Kingdom of Ends, Gisela Striker, Princeton University Press, Sarah Broadie, Terence Irwin, The Hellenistic Philosophers New!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 17 pages
- Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 12 pages
- Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 11 pages
- The Critique Of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant on 11 pages
- The Morality of Happiness by Julia Annas on 9 pages
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- Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality (Moral Traditions series) by Andrew M. Flescher on 4 pages
- Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays by Mark Timmons in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Kant and the Problem of God by Gordon E. Michalson Jr in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Agent-Centered Morality: An Aristotelian Alternative to Kantian Internalism by George W. Harris on page 30, and Back Matter
- Kant's Conception of Moral Character: The "Critical" Link of Morality, Anthropology, and Reflective Judgment by G. Felicitas Munzel on page 5, and Back Matter
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