Ethics With Aristotle

by Broadie, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780195085600
• ISBN10: 0195085604
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is a close and comprehensive study of the main themes of Aristotle's ethics. Sarah Broadie concentrates on what he has to teach about happiness, virtue, voluntary agency, practical reason, incontinence, pleasure, and the place of theoria in the best life. Never forgetting that ethics for Aristotle is above all a practical enterprise, she sheds new light on ways in which this practical orientation affects both content and method of his inquiry. The book culminates in a sustained argument showing how even Aristotle's ideal of theoretic contemplation in integral to his essentially practical vision of human nature. Ethics with Aristotle is a major contribution toward the further understanding of Aristotle's ethics.

Author Biography

Sarah Broadie, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University

Table of Contents

Happiness, the Supreme End	p. 3
Presuppositions of the Question	p. 3
The Statesman's Objective	p. 8
Method and Starting Points	p. 17
What is Happiness?	p. 24
Happiness Defined	p. 34
Taking Stock of the Definition	p. 41
On the Other Goods and the Scope of 'Happiness'	p. 50
Virtues and Parts of the Soul	p. 57
Why an Ethics of Virtue?	p. 57
Division of the Soul (I)	p. 61
Division of the Soul (II)	p. 67
Preliminaries on the Development of Virtue	p. 72
Virtue of Character and the Orthos Logos	p. 74
'A Prohairetic State'	p. 78
Conditions of Virtuous Action	p. 82
'With Pleasure' and 'for the Sake of the Noble'	p. 90
The Status of the Mean	p. 95
How We Learn to Be Good	p. 103
A Basis for Justice	p. 110
The Voluntary	p. 124
General Perspectives	p. 124
Strains in 'the Voluntary'	p. 132
Excuses and Nonexcuses	p. 142
'It Depends on Him'	p. 149
Character as Voluntary (I)	p. 159
Character as Voluntary (II)	p. 164
Practical Wisdom	p. 179
The Structure of Rational Choice	p. 179
The Purpose of NE Book VI	p. 185
Probing the Craft Analogy	p. 190
Against the 'Grand End' View	p. 198
Practice and Production	p. 202
Thought and Desire in Rational Choice	p. 212
'Practical Truth'	p. 219
The Works of Reason	p. 225
End and Means in Deliberation	p. 232
Character and Intelligence in Deliberation (I)	p. 242
Character and Intelligence in Deliberation (II)	p. 250
Incontinence	p. 266
The Field of Incontinence	p. 266
How Incontinence Is Possible (I)	p. 274
How Incontinence Is Possible (II)	p. 280
Incontinent Ignorance	p. 287
Essential Features and Contingent Manifestations	p. 292
Aristotle's Analysis	p. 297
Pleasure	p. 313
Why the Investigation of Pleasure?	p. 313
Pleasure and Natural Inclination	p. 320
The Challenge of Neutralism	p. 324
Pleasure as Value-Judgment	p. 331
Against the Process Theory	p. 339
Nature, Pleasure and Reason	p. 346
The Limits of Hedonism	p. 353
Aristotle's Values	p. 366
New Directions from Old	p. 366
The Problem	p. 370
Goods and Ends in the Eudemian Ethics	p. 373
Theoria in the Eudemian Ethics	p. 383
A Sketch of the Nicomachean Position	p. 388
The Need to Justify Theoria	p. 392
Divine Activity versus Human Happiness	p. 398
Living like the Gods	p. 408
The Crown of Happiness	p. 412
Leisure, Pleasure and Serious Activities	p. 419
The Best Life	p. 427
Works Cited	p. 439
Texts of Aristotle	p. 439
Other Works	p. 439
Name Index	p. 445
Subject Index	p. 449
Index Locorum Aristotelis	p. 453
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