Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Protestantism

Phronesis And Virtue of Character: The Making of Morally Right Goals in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

ARISTOTLE ON THE BEST GOOD: IS NICOMACHEAN ETHICS 1094a18-22 FALLACIOUS?

The first sentence of NE I.2 has roughly the form: “If A [there is a universal end] and B (because, if not-B, then C), then D [this end will be the best good]”. According to some commentators, Aristotle uses B to infer A; but then the sentence is fallacious. According to other commentators, Aristotle does not use B (until later on); but then the sentence is bizarre. Contrary to both sets of com...

“conservative Protestantism” in the United States

Henry Stubbe, radical Protestantism and the early Enlightenment

last few years by Jetter himself, show hospitals as they now appear. There are also architectural sketches, floorplans from different historical periods, and detailed photographs of stained-glass windows and commemorative crests. In addition, the book contains a sixteen-page historical survey that integrates the accounts of the ten individual hospitals and discusses some of the other important ...

Aristotle and the Importance of Virtue in the Context of the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics and Its Relation to Today

While much of Aristotle’s works are preserved in various volumes, two of his famous works are the Nichmachean Ethics and the Politics, both of which contain a rich compilation of ethical and political thought. In the Ethics, Aristotle describes a thorough understanding of ethical and intellectual virtue. By pursuing these virtues, Aristotle argues that a person can achieve a life of fulfilling ...