Tag: Nicomachean Ethics

Where to Read Aristotle’s Function Argument

Aristotle’s Function Argument, Precisely Located

Aristotle’s “Function Argument” is not a separate essay. It is the modern name for a passage in Nicomachean Ethics I.7,…

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Nicomachean Ethics interpretation

Happiness Is a Public Practice: Rereading the Nicomachean Ethics

Estimated reading time: about 19 minutes A serious Nicomachean Ethics interpretation has to begin by discarding two reassuring reductions: that…

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Doctrine of the Mean in Nicomachean Ethics

The Mean in Its Proper Place: Aristotle’s Doctrine in Book II

The “Doctrine of the Mean” is not a separate Aristotelian essay. The Doctrine of the Mean in Nicomachean Ethics is…

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