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Description

1. xiv, 213 pages; 22 cm

Alternative title

1. Aristotle's theory of virtue

Subject

1. Aristotle > Ethics
2. Aristotle
3. Aristote, (0384-0322 av. j.-c.) > Morale
4. Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
5. Virtue > History
6. Character > History
7. Vertus > Histoire
8. Caractère > Histoire
9. Ethics
10. Character
11. Virtue
12. Ethiek
13. Deugden
14. Persoonlijkheid

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. 1. Introduction -- Character -- The inseparability of character and practical reason -- A practical theory -- 2. Discerning the particulars -- Equity within the law -- An alternative legislative model -- Perceiving ethical salience -- Seeing through emotions -- Strategies for expanding horizons -- 3. The choices of a character -- Present and future intention -- The practical syllogism -- Simple planning -- The more complex plans of a character -- Choice includes revision of ends -- Fitting contemplation in a life -- Good and bad characters -- 4. The shared life -- Aristotle and Kant -- Friends as external goods -- Happiness as including the happiness of others -- Friendship and wider altruism -- A friend as another but separate self -- Conditions for attachment -- Virtuous parents and virtuous children (or sons) -- The limitations of private education -- 5. The viability of a developmental model -- The rationality of the non-rational part -- The inappropriateness of harsh sanctions -- The intentionality of emotions -- Learning to see aright -- Learning to make choices -- Habituation as critical practice -- The pleasure intrinsic to practice -- Practice includes experience.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. "Clarendon paperbacks."
2. "First issued in paperback 1991."
3. Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis (Harvard University, 1982).

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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