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Loving the Fine - Virtue and Happiness in Artistotle's Ethics (Paperback)
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Loving the Fine - Virtue and Happiness in Artistotle's Ethics (Paperback)
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Assuming that people want to be happy, can we show that they cannot
be happy without being ethical, and that all rational people
therefore should be able to see that it is in their own best
interest to be ethical? Is it irrational to reject ethics?
Aristotle thought so, claims Anna Lannstroem; but, she adds, he
also thought that there was no way to prove it to a skeptic or an
immoral person. Lannstroem probes Aristotle's view that desire is
crucial to decision making and to the formation of moral habits,
pinpointing the "love of the fine" as the starting point of any
argument for ethics. Those who love the fine can be persuaded that
ethics is a crucial part of our happiness. However, as Lannstroem
explains, the immoral person does not share this love, and
therefore Aristotle denied that any argument would convince the
immoral person to become good. Lannstroem maintains that
Aristotle's Ethics speaks not just to ancient Greeks but to all
those who already love the fine, aiming to help them improve their
self-understanding and encouraging them to become better human
beings. As a consequence, Aristotelian ethics remain viable today.
Written in accessible and lucid prose, Loving the Fine contributes
to the renewed interest in Aristotle's moral philosophy and will be
of interest to students of virtue ethics and the history of
philosophy.
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