"Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics" provides an innovative and
crucially important account of the role of pleasure and desire in
Aristotle's ethics. Michael Weinman seeks to overcome common
impasses in the mainstream interpretation of Aristotle's ethical
philosophy through the careful study of Aristotle's account of
pleasure in the human, but not merely human, good, thus presenting
a new way in which we can improve our understanding of Aristotle's
ethics. Weinman asserts that we should read Aristotle's ethical
arguments in the light of his views on the cosmos (the living whole
we call nature) and the never-changing principles informing that
living whole. Weinman shows that what, above all else, emerges from
this new re-reading of the ethical writings is a new understanding
of human desire as the natural stretching ourselves toward
pleasure, which is the good, and which is the good by nature. These
lessons will demonstrate why we must understand the virtues as
unified, why the good described in "Nicomachean Ethics" is both a
human and greater-than-human good, and why the reasoning and
desiring parts of the soul must be understood as companions. The
necessary but as yet unrealised account of pleasure this book
advances is integral to improving our understanding of Aristotle's
ethics. This fascinating book will be of interest to anyone with an
interest in Aristotle's ethical theory and in particular his
"Nicomachean Ethics".
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