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Particularism in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics [PDF]

Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2013
In this essay I offer a new particularist reading of Aristotle’sNicomachean Ethics. I argue that the interpretation I present not only helps us to resolve some puzzles about Aristotle’s goals and methods, but it also gives rise to a novel account of morality – an account that is both interesting and plausible in its own right. The goal of this paper is,
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Principled Pragmatism in Water Resources Research: An Historical and Philosophical Perspective on Studies in South Asia and Beyond

Water Resources Research, Volume 61, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract Principled pragmatism is a broad and expanding approach to water policy research, especially in the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. These studies advocate policies that are both pragmatic, in the ordinary language sense of the term, and principled.
James L. Wescoat Jr., Basit Koshul, Abubakr Muhammad   +2 more
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Aristotle’s πόλις: The Political Community as a Common Project

Peitho, 2017
At the beginning of Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle says that “the good is the same for an individual as for a city”. The good in question is εὐδαιμονία – the highest good achievable for human beings.
Leszek Skowroński
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Hyman, Ryle, and the Unity of Knowledge

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1570-1586, December 2025.
Abstract In a number of papers and a book over the past thirty years, John Hyman has developed a unified account of knowledge that builds on Gilbert Ryle and Ludwig Wittgenstein's conceptions of knowledge as closely linked to ‘ability’. On Hyman's account, knowledge that p is the ability to be guided by the fact that p.
Matt Dougherty
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“A Practice of Fairness”: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City

Public Administration, Volume 103, Issue 4, Page 1022-1037, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Social justice is often theorized as fairness and expressed in equity as part of public administration and associated budgeting practices. Whereas much literature contrasted deontological positions, emphasizing a procedural justice with fairness based on rules, with consequentialist theory that emphasizes a distributional justice based on ...
Laurence Ferry, Thomas Ahrens
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Aneignung und Interpretation der monadologischen Metaphysik von Leibniz durch die Metaphysik des Daseins [PDF]

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2014
The research of H.-G. Gadamer and F. Volpi have showed the intimate connection between Sein und Zeit and the philosophy of Aristotle, specially the Nicomachean Ethics.
Hardy Neumann
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Spinoza's authentic solitude

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 634-653, December 2025.
Abstract In this article, I consider two interpretations of Spinoza's account of the good life in recent literature, which I call the social activist model and the solitary intellectualist model, in order to shed light on his underexamined views on solitude within this context.
Sanem Soyarslan
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Aristote et la théorie de l’humour

Methodos, 2023
Aristote, Théophraste, Plutarque, Rhétorique, Ethique à Nicomaque, This paper offers a reconstruction of Aristotle’s theory of humor, both descriptive and normative.
Pierre Destrée
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Justice: word, idea, practice

Criminology, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 707-743, November 2025.
Abstract What do “justice,” “social justice,” and “injustice” mean? What is your idea of justice? This article analyzes macrolevel understandings of justice (distributive justice) in political philosophy and mesolevel understandings of justice as rectification (criminal and civil justice) in penal philosophy, law, and social science.
Kathleen Daly
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Anthropomorphism, False Beliefs, and Conversational AIs: How Chatbots Undermine Users' Autonomy

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 1399-1419, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Conversational AIs (CAIs) are autonomous systems capable of engaging in natural language interactions with users. Recent advancements have enabled CAIs to engage in conversations with users that are virtually indistinguishable from human interactions.
Beatrice Marchegiani
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