Moral Virtue and the Limits of the Political Community in Aristotle'sNicomachean Ethics

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ID6232379
AuthorsSusan D Collins (University of Houston, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume48
Issue1
Pages47-61
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00055.x
OpenAlexW1987237047
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited27

The recovery of Aristotle's view of the political community as guardian of the common good and moral educator has fueled a continuing debate about civic education and virtue. In focusing on the relation of virtue to the common good and that of the individual, however, this debate has obscured Aristotle's insight into virtue's status as an independent end. I argue that by taking account of this dimension of virtue, Aristotle's discussion of the particular moral virtues in the Nicomachean Ethics clarifies the nature and limits of civic education and shows that the full question of the human good emerges only with an investigation of the political community's highest and noblest pedagogic aims

Civic virtue · Common good · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Guardian · Political ethics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification

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