Beauty and morality in Aristotle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23147707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T H Irwin, Terence Irwin (Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 239-253 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | 'Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics' (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511977626.012 |
| OpenAlex | W18297936 |
| ISBN | 9780511977626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
According to Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics is a work of political science, and political science considers "just and kalon things" (i.3, 1094b14). He devotes a whole book to a discussion of justice, but he offers no explicit discussion of the kalon. The Eudemian Ethics begins by rejecting the view expressed in the Delian epigram, that the most kalon, the best, and the pleasantest are three different things. Aristotle affirms that happiness is the one thing that has all three superlative properties (1214a1–8). But he does not support this claim with a detailed account of the kalon. It is not surprising, then, that critics have tried to fill this gap in Aristotle, or that they have found it difficult to reach agreement.
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Epistemology · Literature · Morality · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Philosophy
Phronesis and the Virtues ( NE vi 12–13)
Beginning and Ending with Eudaimonia
Competing Ways of Life and Ring Composition ( NE x 6–8)
Aristotle and the Scope of Justice
Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle
Protreptic Aspects of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle’s Analysis of Akratic Action
Was Aristotle a Humean? A Partisan Guide to the Debate
The Relationship between Aristotle’s Ethical and Political Discourses ( NE x 9)
The Eudemian Ethics and Its Controversial Relationship to the Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle on the Uses of Contemplation
Philosophical Virtue
Happiness and the External Goods
Why Is Aristotle’s Virtue of Character a Mean? Taking Aristotle at His Word ( NE ii 6)
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Nobility in the Nicomachean Ethics
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |