Many scholars argue that from an Aristotelian point of view, Alexander has no conceptual ground to defend his incompatibilist and indeterminist position; I wish to argue against this reading by showing that this is only right if we take his position to be grounded on the Nicomachean account of what is up to us. I thus wish to argue that Alexander’s position is not at odds with Aristotle’s notion of what is up to us in the Eudemian account, which clearly claims that the human being’s capacity of …
Read moreMany scholars argue that from an Aristotelian point of view, Alexander has no conceptual ground to defend his incompatibilist and indeterminist position; I wish to argue against this reading by showing that this is only right if we take his position to be grounded on the Nicomachean account of what is up to us. I thus wish to argue that Alexander’s position is not at odds with Aristotle’s notion of what is up to us in the Eudemian account, which clearly claims that the human being’s capacity of acting otherwise is deeply rooted in her rational nature.
