Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction Ethics as Practical Science
- 2 Beginning and Ending with Eudaimonia
- 3 Happiness and the External Goods
- 4 Why Is Aristotle’s Virtue of Character a Mean? Taking Aristotle at His Word (NE ii 6)
- 5 Choice and Moral Responsibility (NE iii 1–5)
- 6 Courage and Temperance
- 7 The Social Virtues (NE iv)
- 8 Giving Justice Its Due
- 9 The Book on Wisdom
- 10 Phronesis and the Virtues (NE vi 12–13)
- 11 Was Aristotle a Humean? A Partisan Guide to the Debate
- 12 Aristotle’s Analysis of Akratic Action
- 13 Philosophical Virtue
- 14 The Nicomachean Ethics on Pleasure
- 15 Finding Oneself with Friends
- 16 Competing Ways of Life and Ring Composition (NE x 6–8)
- 17 The Relationship between Aristotle’s Ethical and Political Discourses (NE x 9)
- 18 Protreptic Aspects of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- 19 The Eudemian Ethics and Its Controversial Relationship to the Nicomachean Ethics
- 20 Topical Bibliography to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- Index
13 - Philosophical Virtue
In Defense of the Grand End
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction Ethics as Practical Science
- 2 Beginning and Ending with Eudaimonia
- 3 Happiness and the External Goods
- 4 Why Is Aristotle’s Virtue of Character a Mean? Taking Aristotle at His Word (NE ii 6)
- 5 Choice and Moral Responsibility (NE iii 1–5)
- 6 Courage and Temperance
- 7 The Social Virtues (NE iv)
- 8 Giving Justice Its Due
- 9 The Book on Wisdom
- 10 Phronesis and the Virtues (NE vi 12–13)
- 11 Was Aristotle a Humean? A Partisan Guide to the Debate
- 12 Aristotle’s Analysis of Akratic Action
- 13 Philosophical Virtue
- 14 The Nicomachean Ethics on Pleasure
- 15 Finding Oneself with Friends
- 16 Competing Ways of Life and Ring Composition (NE x 6–8)
- 17 The Relationship between Aristotle’s Ethical and Political Discourses (NE x 9)
- 18 Protreptic Aspects of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- 19 The Eudemian Ethics and Its Controversial Relationship to the Nicomachean Ethics
- 20 Topical Bibliography to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics , pp. 263 - 287Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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