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Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics

Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics

Ward, Ann

Hardcover

Series: Suny Ancient Greek Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1438462670
ISBN13: 9781438462677
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Nov 1 2016
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectural virtue with morality.

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.

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