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The dark side of phrónesis: revisiting the political incompetence of philosophy
In his Ethics, Aristotle joins sophrosúne and phrónesis as synonyms. In approximately the same time frame, Xenophon provides a Wittgensteinian account of a go-and-look instance of what sophrosúne looked like in one ancient Greek context.
Bruce Krajewski
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In ancient philosophy, there is no discipline called “logic” in the contemporary sense of “the study of formally valid arguments.” Rather, once a subfield of philosophy comes to be called “logic,” namely in Hellenistic philosophy, the field includes ...
Finley, Robby +2 more
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Aristotle on Blaming Animals: Taking the Hardline Approach on Voluntary Action in the Nicomachean Ethics III.1–5 [PDF]
This essay offers a reconstruction of Aristotle’s account of the voluntary in the Nicomachean Ethics, arguing that the voluntary grounds one notion of responsibility with two levels, and therefore both rational and non-rational animals are responsible ...
E. Carron, Paul
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Thrasymachus’ Unerring Skill and the Arguments of Republic 1 [PDF]
In defending the view that justice is the advantage of the stronger, Thrasymachus puzzlingly claims that rulers never err and that any practitioner of a skill or expertise (τέχνη) is infallible.
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Phronesis and an ethics of responsibility
This article concerns the development of a framework for the formation of an adequate approach to moral reasoning in bioethics. Bioethics has largely been dominated by the influence of two approaches to moral reasoning, viz. utilitarianism and Kantian deontology.
Van Niekerk, Anton A., Nortje, Nico
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The Just War Tradition and Natural Law [PDF]
This Essay is divided into three parts. First, it briefly discusses Augustine on the notion of a naturalistic morality implanted in human minds and hearts. Second, it traces the ways in which such notions as human nature figure in Augustinian and post-
Elshtain, Jean Bethke
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A partir del concepto de acción, Arendt recurre a las ideas aristotélicas tanto políticas como éticas para fundamentar una teoría de la acción. La perspectiva de algunos modernos que consideran al individuo fuera de su esfera práctica y reflexiva ha ...
Catalina Barrio
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This paper addresses the role of philosophical practice in the development of Aristotelian phronesis to enable younger generation to cope with human vulnerabilities.
Sandra Lagrange-Lanaspre
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A New Vision of Liberal Education: The Good of the Unexamined Life
Alistair Miller’s book, A New Vision of Liberal Education, is a dilation of his doctoral thesis, but it is enormously ambitious in aim: “My specific aim in this book is to explore whether aspects of the two traditions [of Enlightenment and Aristotelian ...
DeNicola, Daniel R.
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The VIA Inventory of Strengths, Positive Youth Development, and Moral Education [PDF]
The VIA Inventory of Strengths and the VIA model were originally developed to assess and study 24 character strengths. In this paper, I discuss how the VIA Inventory and its character strength model can be applied to the field of moral education with ...
Han, Hyemin
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