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July 19, 2022
Aristotelian Eudaimonia: The Strange Virtue of the Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotelian Eudaimonia: The Strange Virtue of the Nicomachean Ethics

In the classical world, human action was thought to transcend mere stimulus and response. While a captive dog might be conditioned to salivate at the ringing of a bell, genuinely human activity was held to be too rich to be reduced to such a model. Human activity, in contrast, is guided by reason, and so, …

June 11, 2021
Plato on Nature, Function, and Virtue

Plato on Nature, Function, and Virtue

In this essay, continue my analysis of Book I of the Republic by examining Plato’s use of the classical concept of excellence to defend the claim that justice is an intrinsic rather than merely instrumental good. After arguing that justice is not, as Thrasymachus contends, merely as the advantage of the stronger, Socrates attempts to …

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