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Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered: Phenomenological Ethics

By Pavlos Kontos

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781136649875, 1136649875
Google Books ID
EZWpAgAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
406 kB (415552 bytes)
Pages
333\0
Time added
2024-07-10 05:04:58

Description

This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and evil—that is, before any reference to specific ethical outlooks—one should explain the very materiality of what necessarily constitutes the ‘moral world’. These claims are substantiated by means of a text- centered interpretation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in dialogue with contemporary moral realism. The book concludes with a critique of Heidegger’s, Gadamer’s and Arendt’s approaches to Aristotle’s ethics.

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