White opposes the long-standing view that ancient Greek ethics is fundamentally different from modern ethical views. He examines the ways in which Greek ethics has been interpreted since the 18th century, and traces the history in Greek ethical thought of the idea of conflict among human aims, in particular the conflict between conformity to ethical standards and one's own happiness.
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Nicholas White is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine.
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deliberative conflict, eudaimonist position, fusionist interpretation, ultimate rational aim, eudaimonist thesis, worthwhile human aims, hegelian interpreters, inclusivist interpretation, hegelian response, hegelian readers, imperative notions, deliberative considerations, own eudaimonia, imperative formulations, inclusivist view, kantian response, repulsive notions, modern ethics, ancient ethics, attractive formulations, rational aims, imperative terms, virtuous activity, hegelian interpretation, kantian reading Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Classical Greek, Golden Rule, Bernard Williams, Plato's Republic, Greeks of the Classical, Charles Taylor, Classical Greece, Melian Dialogue, Plato's Protagoras, Alasdair Maclntyre, Principal Doctrines, Diogenes Laertius, Matthew Arnold, Prime Mover, The Importance of Deliberative Conflict New!
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deliberative conflict, eudaimonist position, fusionist interpretation, ultimate rational aim, eudaimonist thesis, worthwhile human aims, hegelian interpreters, inclusivist interpretation, hegelian response, hegelian readers, imperative notions, deliberative considerations, own eudaimonia, imperative formulations, inclusivist view, kantian response, repulsive notions, modern ethics, ancient ethics, attractive formulations, rational aims, imperative terms, virtuous activity, hegelian interpretation, kantian reading Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Classical Greek, Golden Rule, Bernard Williams, Plato's Republic, Greeks of the Classical, Charles Taylor, Classical Greece, Melian Dialogue, Plato's Protagoras, Alasdair Maclntyre, Principal Doctrines, Diogenes Laertius, Matthew Arnold, Prime Mover, The Importance of Deliberative Conflict New!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 45 pages
- Eudemian Ethics: Books I, II, and VIII (Clarendon Aristotle) (Bks.1, 2 & 8) by Aristotle on 12 pages
- Magna Moralia (Spanish Edition) by Aristotle on 4 pages
- Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sophocles on 4 pages
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 102, page 161, and Back Matter
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- A Companion to Plato (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by Hugh H. Benson in Front Matter, and page 372
- Reasons and the Good by Roger Crisp on page 34, and Back Matter
- A Companion to Socrates (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by Sara Ahbel-Rappe in Front Matter, and page 385
- Practical Conflicts: New Philosophical Essays by Peter Baumann on page 243
- A Brief History of Happiness (Brief Histories of Philosophy) by Nicholas White in Back Matter
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