Aristotle on the Necessity of Habituation: Re-Reading Nicomachean Ethics 2.4
Abstract In Nicomachean Ethics 2.4 Aristotle raises a puzzle about moral habituation. Scholars take the puzzle to concern how a learner could perform virtuous actions, given the assumption that virtue is prior to virtuous action. I argue, instead, that Aristotle is concerned to defend the necessity...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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Phronesis
Año: 2021, Volumen: 66, Número: 1, Páginas: 1-26 |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Action
B Agency B Aporia B Virtue B Habituation B Aristotle |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (Publisher) |
| Sumario: | Abstract In Nicomachean Ethics 2.4 Aristotle raises a puzzle about moral habituation. Scholars take the puzzle to concern how a learner could perform virtuous actions, given the assumption that virtue is prior to virtuous action. I argue, instead, that Aristotle is concerned to defend the necessity of practice, given the assumption that virtue is reducible to virtuous action. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5284 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Phronesis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685284-BJA10032 |
