Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life
ISBN: 9780198835004
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Philosophy History of Philosophy;

Sylvia Berryman provides a new interpretation of Aristotle's virtue ethics, which goes against the common assumption that it is hampered by Aristotle's outdated appeals to a biological foundation of ethics in human nature. Resisting the view that Aristotle was blind to questions of the source or justification of his ethical views, Berryman compares his ethics to contemporary constructivism and situates them between the metaphysical grounding offered by Platonistsand the scepticism or subjectivist alternatives articulated by others.

Sylvia Berryman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her previous research into the history of ancient Greek ideas about the sciences and their impact on philosophy led to her current interest in the impact of Aristotle's biological work on his conception of the good in ethics. She is also interested in the applications of Aristotelian virtue ethics in contemporary philosophy.

hidden image for function call