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Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered: Phenomenological Ethics

By Pavlos Kontos

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2011
ISBN
9780415896740, 9780203805695
DOI
10.4324/9780203805695
ASIN
B0076XCL2Y
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1941860 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
Volume
14
Edition
1
Pages
201\211
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-07-08 04:00:07

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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