The Unity of the Virtues in the Eudemian Ethics

Giulia Bonasio (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-780130-7 (ISBN)

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Based on the most recent Greek edition of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics (EE), The Unity of the Virtues in the Eudemian Ethics provides a fresh look at the treatise, arguing that all the virtues-of character, of practical and theoretical thinking-form a unity in the sense that they function together. Giulia Bonasio refers to this unity as Functional Unity. She approaches the EE as a treatise in its own right aside from the connections with the Nicomachean Ethics and shows that understanding its philosophical proposal is fundamental for a full picture of Aristotle's ethics. The EE defends a unity of the virtues that is more comprehensive than the unity of practical wisdom and the character virtues, which is traditionally ascribed to the Nicomachean Ethics.

Bonasio argues that the virtues of theoretical thinking have a fundamental role in this unity and that all the virtues stand in a network of interactions. Her book reconstructs the unity of the parts of the soul, and sheds light on the role in Aristotle's ethics of practical wisdom, the character virtues, the virtues of practical thinking, the virtues of theoretical thinking, the excellent agent, and happiness.

Dr. Giulia Bonasio is Assistant Professor in Ancient Philosophy at Durham University. She specialises in Aristotle's ethics, in particular the Eudemian Ethics. She has been a Guest Junior Professor at the University of Zürich and a Senior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum. She was a Faculty Fellow at King's College (Canada) and a Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University. She was educated in Italy and completed her PhD at Columbia University.

CHAPTER 1: The unity of the parts of the soul
CHAPTER 2: Phronêsis and the virtues of practical thinking
CHAPTER 3: The interdependence between the character virtues and phronêsis
CHAPTER 4: Epistêmê is said in many ways
CHAPTER 5: The virtues of theoretical thinking in the Functional Unity of the Virtues
CHAPTER 6: Kalokagathia: the Functional Unity of the Virtues

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	None
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 199 mm
Gewicht	349 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	0-19-780130-7 / 0197801307
ISBN-13	978-0-19-780130-7 / 9780197801307
Zustand	Neuware