Confronting Aristotle's Ethics: Ancient and Modern Morality

by Eugene Garver

Book Overview

What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good--improving one's community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well--cultivating one's own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideas--doing good and doing well--were one and the same and could be realized in a single life. In Confronting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022627019X
• ISBN13: 9780226270197
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"