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Revaluing ethics : Aristotle's dialectical pedagogy / Thomas W. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Thomas W., 1965-
- Series:
- SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.
- Aristotle.
- Ethics, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 325 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- The Return to Aristotle 1
- Protreptic 7
- Dialectic: A Brief Overview 10
- Part I The Audience
- Chapter 1 The Political Character of Aristotle's Pedagogy
- Formation and Regimes 23
- The Political Dimensions of the Pedagogy 26
- Chapter 2 The Audience of the Nicomachean Ethics
- The Problem of Audience 33
- Where the Action Is 35
- The Love of Honor and the Love of Activity 39
- The Ambiguous Results of the Pursuit of Honor 41
- Political Effects of the Culture of Honor 45
- Plato's Case against Virtue-as-Equity in the Republic 50
- The Appearance of Virtue 54
- Pedagogical Problems: How Love or Honor Leads to Complacency 56
- Pedagogical Strategies: Virtue-as-Equity 60
- Pedagogical Problems: Philosophy 62
- Questioning Aristotle's Pedagogical Strategy 64
- Part II Revaluing the Virtues
- Chapter 3 Approaching the Virtues
- Does Aristotle Accept his Culture's Notions of the Virtues? 71
- Bifurcating the Soul; Bifurcating Virtue 75
- Moral Paralysis 77
- The Devaluation of Reason 79
- Slicing and Dicing the Virtues 80
- Chapter 4 Criticizing the Moral Virtues
- Manliness 85
- Moderation 91
- Generosity 91
- Magnificence 99
- The Mean with Respect to Anger 103
- Social Relations 106
- Irony 111
- Chapter 5 Greatness of Soul
- Aristotle on Greatness of Soul 116
- The Iliad on Human Limits 121
- Chapter 6 Justice, Injustice, and Equity
- Different Starting Points 131
- Comfortable Risk Minimizers versus Needy Risk Takers 148
- The Problem with Law 149
- The Partiality of Law 150
- Equity 151
- Chapter 7 Turning Reputable Opinion Upside Down
- Reassessing the Relation of Thought to Practice 157
- Thought as an Action 166
- Aristotelian Rationality, the Human Good, and Life Plans 167
- A New Start 171
- Moral Weakness 175
- New Distinctions 180
- Standing Virtue on Its Head 183
- Part III Friendship and Philosophy
- Chapter 8 Analogous Communities
- From Having to Being: Equal versus Unequal Relationships 195
- Interdependence and Human Flourishing 203
- More in the Nature of Things 205
- Analogical Communities 206
- The Common Good in Aristotelian Thought 211
- Theory Informing Practice 216
- Why Bother? 221
- Virtue-as-Equity, Virtue-as-Fairness 225
- The Negative Way to Virtue-as-Equity 229
- Chapter 9 Hortatory Conclusions
- Aristotle Tips his Pedagogical Hand 233
- The Accounts of Pleasure 235
- The Fulfillment of Desire 245
- So Why Won't He Talk about Contemplation? 248
- Conclusion: Contemplation, Action, and the Limits of Aristotelian Political Philosophy
- The Missing Question 251
- Interpretive Problems 252
- The Way the Problem Appeared to Aristotle's Audience 253
- Practical Wisdom 264
- Contemplation 267
- Contemplation and Its Effects on Practical Wisdom 272
- Practical Wisdom and Providing for Contemplation 277
- Human Limits and the Limits of Aristotelian Political Philosophy 279.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791451410
- 0791451429
- OCLC:
- 45791414
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