Bywater's Artistotle's Nicomachean Ethics - Contributions to the Textual Criticism of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, by Ingram Bywater. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892. 2s. 6d.

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...

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 ...

Time for Aristotle: Physics IV.10-14, by Ursula Coope. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005

Business Ethics and Internal Social Criticism

The purpose of this paper is to present an understanding of business ethics based on a theory of intemal social criticism. Internal social criticism focuses on how members of a business organization debate the meanings of their shared traditions for the purpose of locating and correcting hypocrisy. Organizations have thick moral cultures that allow them to be self-governing moral communities. B...