Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics

by Ann Ward

Book Overview

In this book, Ann Ward explores Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the progressive structure of the argument. Aristotle begins by giving an account of moral virtue from the perspective of the moral agent, only to find that the account itself highlights fundamental tensions within the virtues that push the moral agent into the realm of intellectual virtue. However, the existence of an intellectual realm separate from the moral realm...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438462670
• ISBN13: 9781438462677
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"