Living Together: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics is one of three
volumes collecting previously published essays by Jennifer Whiting.
This volume explores Aristotle's conception of eudaimonia,
especially the roles played in it by the theoretical and practical
activities central to human lives and by the quality of our
relationships with one another. Whiting explores Aristotle's
struggle to reconcile the desirability of living in accordance with
justice and other distinctively human virtues with the ideal of
pursuing the “divine” life of contemplation. She focuses on
Aristotle's attempts to reconcile his conception of eudaimonia as
the ultimate end of human action with the parallel requirements
that virtuous agents choose to engage in virtuous action “for
itself” and that friends love their friends “for themselves”.
Drawing on her original reading of Aristotle's conception of the
ideal friend as an “other self”, Whiting challenges common
readings of Aristotle's eudaimonism as a form of rational egoism.
She stresses appreciation of the friend's character “for
itself”, and apart from any relationships in which it happens to
stand to the agent's own needs and/or tastes, but calls attention
to the important and often neglected role that Aristotle assigns to
pleasure in this relationship. The ideal friend recognizes the
value her friend's activity has for her friend and so takes
pleasure in the friend's activity as such. This explains why the
maximally self-sufficient (and so most godlike) agent, who needs
nothing from a friend, will nevertheless choose to have at least
one or two: she enjoys their company.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
Jennifer Whiting
(Distinguished Professor of Philosophy)
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
320 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-996967-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-19-996967-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780199969678 |
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