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Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle (Paperback)
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Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle (Paperback)
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In this illuminating study of the moral psychology of Plato and
Aristotle, A. W. Price considers four related areas: eudaimonia, or
living and acting well, as the ultimate end of action; virtues of
character in relation to the emotions, and to one another;
practical reasoning, especially from an end to ways or means; and
acrasia, or action that is contrary to the agent's own judgement of
what is best. The focal concept is that of eudaimonia, which both
Plato and Aristotle view as an abstract goal that is valuable
enough to motivate action. Virtue has a double role to play in
making its achievement possible, both in proposing subordinate ends
apt to the context, and in protecting the agent against temptations
to discard them too easily. For both purposes, Price suggests that
virtues need to form a unity-but one that can be conceived in
various ways. Among the tasks of deliberation is to work out how,
and whether, to pursue some putative end in context. Aristotle
returns to early Plato in finding it problematic that one should
consciously sacrifice acting well to some incidental attraction;
Plato later finds this possible by postulating schism within the
soul. Price maintains that it is their emphasis upon the centrality
of action within human life that makes the reflections of these
ancient philosophers perennially relevant.
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