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24The Telos of Citizen Life: Music and Philosophy in Aristotle’s Ideal PolisPolis 26 (1): 116-132. 2009.Recently, scholars have disagreed over how to understand the telos, or goal, of citizen life in Aristotle’s Politics. In Book VII, Aristotle claims that philosophy is a virtue necessary for a life of leisure. But the sketch of the educational programme that we get in Book VIII does not include philosophy; it is focused almost entirely on music. This has led some scholars to argue that a life of leisure spent appreciating music and the other arts is the telos of citizen life. This paper argues th…Read more
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17J. Baird Callicott, John van Buren, and Keith W. Brown: Greek Natural Philosophy: The Presocratics and Their Importance for Environmental PhilosophyEnvironmental Ethics 40 (3): 301-302. 2018.
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6The Telos of Citizen Life: Music and Philosophy in Aristotle’s Ideal PolisPolis 26 (1): 116-132. 2009.Recently, scholars have disagreed over how to understand the telos, or goal, of citizen life in Aristotle's Politics. In Book VII, Aristotle claims that philosophy is a virtue necessary for a life of leisure. But the sketch of the educational programme that we get in Book VIII does not include philosophy; it is focused almost entirely on music. This has led some scholars to argue that a life of leisure spent appreciating music and the other arts is the telos of citizen life. This paper argues th…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
| Classical Greek Philosophy |
| Moral Psychology |
Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Film |
| Feminist Philosophy |
| Philosophy of Race |
| Biomedical Ethics |