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Confronting Aristotle's Ethics : ancient and modern morality /

What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good?improving one?s community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well?cultivating one?s own abilities in a meaningful way. But f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garver, Eugene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good?improving one?s community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well?cultivating one?s own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideas?doing good and doing well?were one and the same and could be realized in a single life. In Confronting Aristotle?s Ethics, Eugene Garver examines how we can draw this conclusion from Aristotle's works, while also studying how this conception of the good life rel.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 290 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-275) and indexes.
ISBN:9780226284019
0226284018
1281956856
9781281956859
9786611956851
6611956859