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Contemplating friendship in Aristotle's Ethics / Ann Ward.
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Ward, Ann, 1970-
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English
Published/Created
Albany : SUNY Press, [2016]
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x, 172 pages ; 24 cm.
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B430 .W37 2016
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Friendship
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Aristotle
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Nicomachean ethics
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Aristotle
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Eudemian ethics
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Series
SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy
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Summary note
In this book, Ann Ward explores Aristotle?s Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the progressive structure of the argument. Aristotle begins by giving an account of moral virtue from the perspective of the moral agent, only to find that the account itself highlights fundamental tensions within the virtues that push the moral agent into the realm of intellectual virtue. However, the existence of an intellectual realm separate from the moral realm can lead to lack of self-restraint. Aristotle, Ward argues, locates political philosophy and the experience of friendship as possible solutions to the problem of lack of self-restraint, since political philosophy thinks about the human things in a universal way, and friendship grounds the pursuit of the good which is happiness understood as contemplation. Ward concludes that Aristotle?s philosophy of friendship points to the embodied intellect of timocratic friends and mothers in their activity of mothering as engaging in the highest form of contemplation and thus living the happiest life.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-164) and index.
Contents
Contemplating friendship in Aristotle's Ethics
Teleology, inequality, and autonomy
Moral virtue: possibilities and limits
Justice: giving to each what is owed
Intellectual virtue, Akrasia, and political philosophy
Citizens, friends, and philosophers
Happiness and maternal contemplation.
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ISBN
9781438462677 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
1438462670 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016007293
OCLC
946968256
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