Particularism in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

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...

Moral Particularism and Transduction

Some Problems with Particularism

This article suggests that due to a restricted understanding of the nature and scope of ethical theory, particularism discounts prematurely the possibility of a metatheory of Buddhist ethics. The textual evidence presented in support of particularism is reconsidered and shown to be consistent with a metatheoretical reading. It is argued that writers who have adopted a particularist approach bas...

Particularism and Multi - Cultural Education :