Aristotle's Discovery of the Human
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Aristotle's Discovery of the Human

Piety and Politics in the "Nicomachean Ethics"

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Aristotle's Discovery of the Human

Piety and Politics in the "Nicomachean Ethics"

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Aristotle's Discovery of the Human offers a fresh, illuminating, and accessible analysis of one of the Western philosophical tradition's most important texts.

In Aristotle's Discovery of the Human, noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols explores the ways in which Aristotle brings the gods and the divine into his "philosophizing about human affairs" in his Nicomachean Ethics. Her analysis shows that, for Aristotle, both piety and politics are central to a flourishing human life. Aristotle argues that piety provides us not only an awareness of our kinship to the divine, and hence elevates human life, but also an awareness of a divinity that we cannot entirely assimilate or fathom. Piety therefore supports a politics that strives for excellence at the same time that it checks excess through a recognition of human limitation.

Proceeding through each of the ten books of the Ethics, Nichols shows that this prequel to Aristotle's Politics is as theoretical as it is practical. Its goal of improving political life and educating citizens and statesmen is inseparable from its pursuit of the truth about human beings and their relation to the divine. In the final chapter, which turns to contemporary political debate, Nichols's suggestion of the possibility of supplementing and deepening liberalism on Aristotelian grounds is supported by the account of human nature, virtue, friendship, and community developed throughout her study of the Ethics.

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Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780268205478
Topic
Philosophie
Subtopic
Philosophie politique

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. One Our Unfinished Humanity: A Divine Gift (Book 1)
  8. Two The Ethical Virtues: Nature, Character, and Choice (Books 2–3)
  9. Three The Virtues of Living Together: Distinguishing the Human from the Divine (Book 4)
  10. Four A Shrine to the Graces: Justice and Tragedy (Book 5)
  11. Five Intellectual Virtues: Prudence, Wisdom, and Philosophy (Book 6)
  12. Six Human Strength versus Divine Perfection: Deepening Our View of Virtue (Book 7)
  13. Seven Friendship: Family, Political Community, and Philosophy (Books 8–9)
  14. Eight Divine Thoughts and Political Reform: Summing Up and Moving Forward (Book 10)
  15. Afterthoughts: Aristotelian Piety for a Liberal Politics
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index