The ethical theory of Aristotle's Eudemian ethics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics has often been treated as an inferior, earlier version of the more famous Nicomachean Ethics. This dissertation reads the Eudemian Ethics as a systematic, self-contained, carefully constructed whole, with distinctive arguments that answer questions fundamental to ethics, such as "Why should I be virtuous?" and "What does being virtuous consist in?" I focus on the function argument, the doctrine of the mean, the attribution of partial credit, and the codifiability of ethics into a theory. The result is an Aristotelian ethical theory that is closer to certain contemporary indirect (or two-tier) teleological theories than to some widely shared interpretations of the Nicomachean Ethics.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lee, Roy C |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Bobonich, Christopher |
| Thesis advisor | Bobonich, Christopher |
| Thesis advisor | Code, Alan Dodd, 1951- |
| Thesis advisor | Dannenberg, Jorah, 1979- |
| Thesis advisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Degree committee member | Code, Alan Dodd, 1951- |
| Degree committee member | Dannenberg, Jorah, 1979- |
| Degree committee member | Ober, Josiah |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Philosophy |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Roy C Lee. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Philosophy. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Roy C Lee
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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