Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered: Phenomenological Ethics

By Pavlos Kontos

Book Overview

This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and evil--that is, before any reference to specific ethical outlooks--one should explain the very materiality of what necessarily constitutes the 'moral world'. These claims are substantiated by means of a text- centered interpretation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in dialogue with contemporary moral realism. The book concludes with a critique of Heidegger's, Gadamer's and Arendt's approaches to Aristotle's ethics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415856744
• ISBN13: 9780415856744
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"