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Self-Love and the Unity of Justice in AristotleEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (2): 413-429. 2019.In this paper I take up the question about the unity of justice in Aristotle and advocate for a robust relationship between lawfulness and equality, the two senses of justice that Aristotle distinguishes in Nicomachean Ethics V. My strategy is to focus on Aristotle’s indication in NE V 2 that “other-relatedness” is the common element shared by the two justices and turn to Aristotle’s discussion of the notion of self-love in EN IX 8 to explain what that means. I argue that the other-relatedness o…Read more
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Aristotle on “Steering the Young by Pleasure and Pain”Journal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (2): 137-164. 2015.At least since Burnyeat’s “Aristotle on Learning to Be Good,” one of the most popular ways of explaining moral development in Aristotle is by appealing to mechanisms of pleasure and pain. Aristotle himself suggests this kind of explanation when he says that “in educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain” (Nicomachean Ethics X.1, 1172a21). However, I argue that, contrary to the dominant view, Aristotle’s view on moral development in the Nicomachean Ethics is not mainly …Read more
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Aristotle on Becoming Virtuous by Doing Virtuous ActionsPhronesis 61 (1): 3-32. 2016.Aristotle ’s claim that we become virtuous by doing virtuous actions raises a familiar problem: How can we perform virtuous actions unless we are already virtuous? I reject deflationary accounts of the answer given in _Nicomachean Ethics_ 2.4 and argue instead that proper habituation involves doing virtuous actions with the right motive, i.e. for the sake of the noble, even though learners do not yet have virtuous dispositions. My interpretation confers continuity to habituation and explains in …Read more
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Aristotle on Enduring Evils While Staying HappyIn Pavlos Kontos (ed.), Evil in Aristotle, Cambridge University Press. pp. 150-169. 2018.
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