Phronêsis and Kalokagathia in Eudemian Ethics VIII.3

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ID23212975
AutoresDaniel Wolt (0000-0003-4815-3789, Bilkent University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen60
Número1
Páginas1-23
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the history of philosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-5053 • E-ISSN: 1538-4586
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/hph.2022.0000
OpenAlexW4210820511
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas8

In Eudemian Ethics VIII.3, Aristotle treats a virtue that he calls kalokagathia, "nobility-and-goodness." This virtue appears to be quite important, and he even identifies it with "perfect virtue" (EEVIII.3, 1249a17). This makes it puzzling that the Nicomachean Ethics, a text that largely parallels the Eudemian Ethics, does not discuss kalokagathia at all. I argue that the reason for this difference has to do with the role that the intellectual virtue practical wisdom (phronesis) plays in these treatises. The Nicomachean Ethics, I argue, makes use of a more expansive conception of phronesis than does the Eudemian Ethics. Hence, the work that is done by kalokagathia in the Eudemian Ethics-crucially, accounting for the unity of the virtues-is done in the Nicomachean Ethics by phronesis.

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