Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered: Phenomenological Ethics Contributor(s): Kontos, Pavlos (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415856744 ISBN-13: 9780415856744 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
Dewey: 171.3 |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6" W x 9" (0.64 lbs) 210 pages |
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Publisher 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. |