Research Catalog

Title

Contemplating friendship in Aristotle's Ethics / Ann Ward.

Author

Ward, Ann, 1970-

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

x, 172 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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 can lead to lack of self-restraint. Aristotle, Ward argues, locates political philosophy and the experience of friendship as possible solutions to the problem of lack of self-restraint, since political philosophy thinks about the human things in a universal way, and friendship grounds the pursuit of the good which is happiness understood as contemplation. Ward concludes that Aristotle?s philosophy of friendship points to the embodied intellect of timocratic friends and mothers in their activity of mothering as engaging in the highest form of contemplation and thus living the happiest life.

Series Statement

SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy

Uniform Title

SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.

Subject

• Aristotle
• Eudemian ethics (Aristotle)
• Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
• Friendship

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Contemplating friendship in Aristotle's Ethics -- Teleology, inequality and autonomy -- Moral virtue: possibilities and limits -- Justice: giving to each what is owed -- Intellectual virtue, Akrasia and political philosophy -- Citizens, friends and philosophers -- Happiness and maternal contemplation.

Call Number

JFE 16-12073

ISBN

• 9781438462677
• 1438462670

LCCN

2016007293

OCLC

946968256

Author

Ward, Ann, 1970- author.

Title

Contemplating friendship in Aristotle's Ethics / Ann Ward.

Publisher

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy

SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Ward, Ann, 1970- author. Contemplating friendship in Aristotle's Ethics. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016 9781438462684

Research Call Number

JFE 16-12073