The Divine in Aristotle’s Ethics
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What role does the notion of the divine play in Aristotle’s account of a good life? This is not an obvious question; god appears relatively infrequently, for example, in the Nicomachean Ethics. But it might interest us, if only because of the perplexing appearance of the divine in Book 10 of that treatise, as that which appears to underwrite the choice of a contemplative life. The cognate question, what role does god play in Aristotle’s understanding of being, is obvious and is more understandable, given Metaphysics Lambda. That question yields a variety of answers. Some interpreters see the entire Metaphysics as directed toward the discussion of divine being in Lambda. Others see Lambda as an addendum to the central books of the Metaphysics, perhaps the residuum of a youthful view outgrown in the course of Aristotle’s maturation.
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