With Mirrors or Without? Self-Perception in Eudemian Ethics VII.12
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23199971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Margaret Mccabe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 43-75 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004231207_004 |
| OpenAlex | W2270940500 |
| ISBN | 9789004231207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This chapter is both carefully wrought and thoroughly dialectical. Carefully wrought: Aristotle makes an important point through puns. The issue is whether the self-sufficient person will have, or should have, friends. The chapter, then, is dialectical through and through (all the more so, the author suggests en passant, in Aristotle's allusion to a Platonic dialogue, the Symposium). There are in fact three parallel chapters in Aristotle's ethical works that talk about the self-sufficient man and his friends, and do so in the context of some kind of claim about self-perception and self-knowledge: Magna Moralia 2.15, especially 1213a8-27; Nicomachean Ethics IX.9, especially 1170b5-14; and Eudemian Ethics (EE) VII.12, especially 1245a29-b4. The chapter is shaped, thus, around the two versions of the puzzle about virtue and friendship: but they are versions that are distinct. Keywords:Aristotle; Eudemian Ethics (EE) ; friendship; Magna Moralia ; Nicomachean Ethics ; self-perception
Aesthetics · Allusion · Context (archaeology) · Dialectic · Epistemology · Friendship · Linguistics · Perception · Social science · Sociology · Virtue · Classical Philosophy and Thought · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |