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9VII—The Straight-edge of Virtue: Aristotle on the Rational Significance of Beauty-in-ActionProceedings of the Aristotelian Society. forthcoming.Aristotle claims that the virtuous person acts for the sake of to kalon. To understand this idea, I examine the analogy he draws between craft and virtue. I argue that the kalon is a formal feature of well-ordered wholeness and that the virtuous person takes intellectual pleasure in perceiving (or remembering or imagining) the kalon-in-action, akin to pleasure in observing artworks or works of nature. However, the virtuous person’s pleasure in kalon action is primarily a pleasure of practical re…Read more
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Aristotle on happiness and long lifeIn Øyvind Rabbås, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim & Miira Tuominen (eds.), The Quest for the Good Life: Ancient Philosophers on Happiness, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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10Happiness and the Structure of EndsIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: The Good Conceived as an End The Good as a Convergent End The Meaning of “Eudaimonia” Happiness vs. the Happy Life The Finality Criterion The Self‐sufficiency Criterion Inclusivism The Shape of the Happy Life Concluding Remarks Notes Bibliography.
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Permanent beauty and becoming happy in Plato's SymposiumIn James H. Lesher, Debra Nails & Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield (eds.), Plato's Symposium: issues in interpretation and reception, Harvard University Press. 2006.
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Approximation and Acting for an Ultimate EndIn Pierre Destrée & Marco Antônio Zingano (eds.), Theoria: Studies on the Status and Meaning of Contemplation in Aristotle's Ethics, Peeters Press. 2014.
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16Comments on Rachana Kamtekar, Plato’s Moral PsychologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 103 (1): 221-227. 2021.
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17Plato's Philebus: A Philosophical Discussion (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.This is the inaugural volume of the Plato Dialogue Project: it offers the first collective study of the Philebus - a high point of philosophical ethics, containing some of Plato's most sophisticated discussions of human happiness. The contributors work through the text, discussing pleasure, knowledge, philosophical method, and the human good.
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214Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics"Princeton University Press. 2005.Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues--courage and generosity, for example--that are not in any obvious way either manifestations of philosophical contemplation …Read more
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19Comments on Gavin Lawrence, “Snakes in Paradise: Problems in the Ideal Life”Southern Journal of Philosophy 43 (S1): 166-175. 2005.
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10AcknowledgmentsIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. 2005.
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22Review of Eugene Garver, Confronting Aristotle's Ethics: Ancient and Modern Morality (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (9). 2007.
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17Chapter Two. The Finality CriterionIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 8-46. 2005.
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13Chapter Eight. Two Happy Lives And Their Most Final EndsIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 175-208. 2005.
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7Index LocorumIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 229-236. 2005.
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13Chapter One. IntroductionIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 1-7. 2005.
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12Appendix. Acting For Love In The SymposiumIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 209-220. 2005.
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20Review of Lorraine Smith Pangle, Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (10). 2003.
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16Chapter Three. The Self-Sufficiency Of HappinessIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 47-71. 2005.
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14Chapter Four. Acting For The Sake Of An Object Of LoveIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 72-92. 2005.
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150Permanent beauty and becoming happy in Plato's SymposiumIn James H. Lesher, Debra Nails & Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield (eds.), Plato's Symposium: issues in interpretation and reception, Harvard University Press. pp. 96. 2006.Our first encounter with Socrates in the Symposium is bizarre. Aristodemus, surprised to run into Socrates fully bathed and with his sandals on, asks him where he is going “to have made himself so beautiful (kalos)” (174a4, Rowe trans.). Socrates replies that he is on his way to see the lovely Agathon, and so that “he has beautified himself in these ways in order to go, a beauty to a beauty (kalos para kalon)” (174a7–8). Why does Socrates, who in just a few moments will be lost in contemplation …Read more
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24Chapter Seven. Courage, Temperance, And Greatness Of SoulIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 147-174. 2005.
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72Aristotle on moral virtue and the fineIn Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.The prelims comprise: To Kalon as Effective Teleological Order The Visibility of the Fine Pleasure and Praise The Value of the Fine Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Further reading.
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9Works CitedIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 221-228. 2005.
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10General IndexIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 237-238. 2005.
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11Chapter Five. Theoretical And Practical ReasonIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 93-122. 2005.
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33Plato on learning to love beautyIn Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's "Republic", Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Beauty and Goodness Patterns of Beautiful Poetry Human Excellence and the Standard of Poetic Beauty Moral Psychology Love of Beauty and Being Just Conclusion.
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28Chapter Six. Moral Virtue And To KalonIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. pp. 123-146. 2005.
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7ContentsIn Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", Princeton University Press. 2005.
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