Eudemian Ethics

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Intellectual Virtues ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Eudemian Ethics

This section presents the English translation of Eudemian Ethics, which offers reflections on happiness—described in the text as the noblest, the best, and the most pleasant of human goods—and how it is acquired and attained. Eudemian Ethics also addresses two kinds of virtue, one intellectual and one moral, and goes on to argue that man alone is an originating principle of action. It also discusses examples of moral virtue such as courage, temperance, liberality, pride, and magnificence, as well as the five intellectual virtues: knowledge, craftmanship, wisdom, intelligence, and understanding. Other arguments in the text relate to justice and injustice, continence and incontinence, pleasure, friendship, good fortune, and gentlemanliness.

Magna Moralia

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Moral Character ◽  
Intellectual Virtues ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Living Well

In this English translation of Magna Moralia, the discussion focuses on the themes of good, happiness, virtue, action, justice, continence and incontinence, pleasure, good fortune, friendship, and gentlemanliness. According to the author, the study of moral character is part of the craft of politics. The text also considers the views of Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato and argues that happiness consists in living well, that is, virtuously: it is not virtue itself but the exercise of virtue. Other insights offered by the text include those relating to moral virtues such as courage, temperance, liberality, pride, and magnificence, friendliness, and good temper; intellectual virtues such as knowledge, wisdom, intelligence, and understanding; the problems that arise from incontinence; and the connection between happiness and pleasure.

Intellectual Virtues

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-107
Author(s):  
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Keyword(s):  
Moral Theory ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Intellectual Virtue ◽  
Intellectual Virtues ◽  
Long Period

This chapter defends the view that intellectual virtues are deep and enduring acquired intellectual excellences, supported by the underlying idea in Exemplarist Moral Theory that excellences are admirable traits, and admirable traits are those that people admire on reflection and that have features identified in empirical studies. The intellectual virtues require both admirable intellectual motivations and reliable success in reaching the truth, and the defense of this claim is that that is what people admire on reflection. The connection of intellectual virtue with moral virtue also explains admirable states like wisdom that are recently getting attention in philosophy and psychology after a long period of neglect.

scholarly journals I FATTORI DELLA VIRTÙ E LA CRONOLOGIA DELLE ETICHE DI ARISTOTELE

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierluigi Donini
Keyword(s):  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Joint Effect ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
Eudemian Ethics ◽  
Made In

In this paper the author summarizes the main contentions made in his new book Abitudine e saggezza. Aristotele dall’Etica Eudemia all’Etica Nicomachea. In the Eudemian Ethics Aristotle makes moral virtue as the joint effect of reason and the gifts of nature, but in the Nicomachean Ethics, on the contrary, he does not even name nature and sees virtue as the product of habits and education. On this very point the NE quotes and praises Plato’s Laws, which Aristotle did not know when writing the EE. It seems clear, then, that in the interval between the two Ethics he had known Plato’s last work.

scholarly journals Luck and Good Fortune in the Eudemian Ethics

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent Johnson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Good Fortune ◽  
Eudemian Ethics

scholarly journals Sobre a tradução da Ethica Eudemia por Anthony Kenny

DoisPontos ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Luiz Cruz Sousa
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Aristotelian Ethics ◽  
Eudemian Ethics

ResumoTrata-se de resenha da tradução inglesa da Ethica Eudemia, realizada por Anthony Kenny e publicada em 2011. Contém uma perspectiva geral da tradução (caracterização e contexto), bem como aspectos específicos, sem pretensão de análise exaustiva: a tradução de certos termos centrais à ética aristotélica, e trechos pontuais nos quais o argumento central do tratado se desenvolve, aquele a respeito da vida feliz. AbstractThe paper reviews the english translation of the Eudemian Ethics made by Anthony Kenny, which was published in 2011. The Review presents a general overview of the translation (its context and general traits), as well as a non exaustive analysis of some aspects of the work: the translation of some key concepts of aristotelian ethics, and of some phrases containing the main argument of the treatise, that concerning the happy life.   

Nowhere Motel, Light beyond Being

2000 ◽  
Vol 182 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Brian Jorgensen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Intellectual Virtue ◽  
College Teachers ◽  
Intellectual Virtues ◽  
Influence Behavior

and therefore inevitably encourages moral virtue—or, if the college is a Nowhere Motel, vice. Since Aristotle and recent research on the human brain indicate that, throughout the college years, reason gains power to influence behavior, college is a logical place to study virtue. Many characteristics of college students suggest areas for attention to the teaching of moral virtue; but the essence of college is the development of intellectual virtue, which influences moral virtue. College teachers teach intellectual virtue through their approach to their subject, their conducting of the game or ritual of the classroom, and their moving back and forth between fact and spirit. Because the strongest intellectual virtues can go the most profoundly wrong, Socrates and Confucius suggest that, with the exceptionally gifted, the teacher keep in mind the Good, thought of as a light beyond being. Virtue is inevitably taught in college because real learning is learning to love, and love shapes virtue.

3. The intellectual virtues

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Craig A. Boyd ◽  
Kevin Timpe
Keyword(s):  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Intellectual Virtue ◽  
Intellectual Curiosity ◽  
Intellectual Virtues ◽  
Intellectual Courage ◽  
Intellectual Honesty ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Habits Of The Mind

This chapter examines the intellectual virtues. The belief that there are specific intellectual virtues goes back as far as ancient Greece. Intellectual virtues are habits of the mind that facilitate the pursuit of truth, the avoidance of error, or other epistemic goods. Conversely, intellectual vices are habits of the mind that frustrate these goals. And it is possible that a person with intellectual virtue might not necessarily possess moral virtue. The chapter then considers different intellectual virtues: intellectual honesty; intellectual curiosity; intellectual open-mindedness; intellectual courage and perseverance; and intellectual charity.

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