Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics

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Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics
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Deborah Achtenberg - Author

SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

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Hardcover - 231 pages

Release Date: July 2002

ISBN10: 0-7914-5371-5
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5371-1

Price: $32.95
Paperback - 231 pages

Release Date: July 2002

ISBN10: 0-7914-5372-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5372-8

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Summary

Argues that the central cognitive component of ethical virtue for Aristotle is awareness of the value of particulars.

With this new interpretation, Deborah Achtenberg argues that metaphysics is central to ethics for Aristotle and that the ethics can be read on two levels—imprecisely, in terms of its own dialectically grounded and imprecise claims, or in terms of the metaphysical terms and concepts that give the ethics greater articulation and depth. She argues that concepts of value—the good and the beautiful—are central to ethics for Aristotle and that they can be understood in terms of telos where 'telos' can be construed to mean 'enriching limitation' and contrasted with harmful or destructive limitation. Achtenberg argues that the imprecision of ethics for Aristotle results not simply from the fact that ethics has to do with particulars, but more centrally from the fact that it has to do with the value of particulars. She presents new interpretations of a wide variety of passages in Aristotle's metaphysical, physical, psychological, rhetorical, political, and ethical works in support of her argument and compares Aristotle's views to those of Plato, Marcus Aurelius, the Hebrew Bible, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Freud, and twentieth-century object relations theorists. Achtenberg also responds to interpretations of Aristotle's ethics by McDowell, Nussbaum, Sherman, Salkever, Williams, Annas, Irwin, Roche, Gomez-Lobo, Burnyeat, and Anagnostopoulos.

“Achtenberg has done a nice job of connecting Aristotle's ethics with his metaphysics and important elements of his moral psychology.” — Nicholas Smith, Lewis and Clark College

Deborah Achtenberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Valuable Particulars

2. Ethics and Moral Theory

3. Ethics and Metaphysics

4. The Mean

5. Analogy, Habit, Beauty, Unexpectedness

6. Emotions as Perceptions of Value

Conclusion: Imaginative Construction

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

Ancient Greek Philosophy
Aristotle
Ethics
Philosophy

40612/40613(JFB/CL/)

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