...Stephen S. Bush Nicomachean Ethics presents a puzzle as to whether Aristotle views morally virtuous activity as happiness, as book 1 seems to indicate, or philosophical contemplation as happiness, as book 10 seems to indicate. The most influential attempts to resolve this issue have been either...

... pragmatism evidentialism wrong kind of reasons ethics of activities authoritative normativity It is exceedingly plausible that there are distinctively epistemic reasons that provide normative support for or against beliefs. 1 Call this thesis evidentialism . For instance, the fact that you...

... in Nicomachean Ethics 6.12: 1144a3–6. Turn now to the positive proposal. Walker’s argument comes in two parts: (1) practical reason and ethical virtue guide our threptic activity by regulating our epithumia and thumos ; (2) contemplation can help practical reason in this task by deriving “boundary...

...Christopher Bobonich Nicholas White, Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 369. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 4 (October 2004) Nicholas...

... that one must never inquire into the nature of the soul, or the distinction between activities and states, or other topics of first philosophy. Rather, the point is that one would in that case not be enhancing one's understanding of the subject matter of the Ethics —which is practical, not theoretical...

... of spirited desires is in competitive exertion, being active and in command (277), and only at a later stage of ethical development does the person come to see order, symmetry, and determinateness as proper objects of desire. But might we not think that the work of determining that order, symmetry...

...-knowledge. The remarks that I take to constitute a second theory about con- sciousness occur in part 5 of the Ethics and are all knowledge uses. Impor- tant examples include 5p31s, where Spinoza makes activity from knowl- edge a function of one’s awareness of oneself and God, and 5p42s, where he...

...Don Loeb ETHICAL NORMS, PARTICULAR CASES. By James D. Wallace. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 171. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS This book is a must-read for those interested contemporary normative ethical theory...

... describes her own project as developing the thesis that subjective experience is explainable, and looks at Spinoza's Ethics “as a model for a philosophical approach that corroborates our thesis” (12). She describes Spinoza's contribution to the philosophy of mind as offering “an attempt to outline...

... is a good human life in virtue of the presence in it of certain characteristic and valued activities or functionings (SSJ, 40). Human beings have certain innate ( basic ) capabilities for engaging in these activities, but the basic capabilities require environmental contributions, both for their full BOOK...

...Hendrik Lorenz Christopher Bobonich, Plato's Utopia Recast—His Later Ethics and Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 643. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS to be paid to the development of this notion in each of the philosophers...

... action, claiming that only agents with wills can be real sources of activity or change. Many versions of the theory also claim that actions are bodily movements, and give a central role to volitions as causes of those movements. The appendix traces variations on the theory through Descartes, Hobbes...

... ( proprioception ) .z The last essay translates adult human self-awareness to the psychological and ethical plane: the self is a unified rational capacity, formed by three connected faculties of impres- sion (or thought), assent, and impulse (or activated desire). Long s tran- scendental reading of the faculty...

... not of individual past actions, but rather of longer stretches of activity. But given Heidegger’s view that authentic human agency always involves an element of improvisation, it is hard to see how he could hold that what makes a stretch of past activity “mine” in the relevant sense is a function of my ability...

... to their own victims. The Athenian's primary concern is to describe institutions that encourage ethical activities and behaviors, with the aim of inculcating the virtues. Annas points out how fairly mundane activities like hunting and marketplace exchange are regulated in Magnesia, with the aim of making...

...Paul Katsafanas Clark Maudemarie , Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . ix + 311 pp . © 2016 by Cornell University 2016 Maudemarie Clark's Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics is a collection of eleven previously published papers and three...

... practice in which the moral educator may praise and blame the activities of children who are still in the process of developing such dispositions (71). The core notion of ethical ascription he assigns to Aristotle is retrospective, and the derivative (prospective) notion is compatible...

...Andrew Dole John Bishop. Believing by Faith: An Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. xii + 250 pp. Cornell University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS Aaron V. Garrett, Meaning in Spinoza’s Method. Cambridge: Cambridge...

...Marilyn Friedman Daniel Engster, The Heart of Justice: Care Ethics and Political Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. ix + 273 pp. Cornell University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS Aaron V. Garrett, Meaning in Spinoza’s Method. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

...Karen Margrethe Nielsen References Anscombe G. E. M. 1965 . “ Thought and Action in Aristotle: What is Practical Truth? ” In New Essays on Plato and Aristotle , edited by Bambrough Renford , 143 – 58 . London : Humanities Press . Broadie Sarah 1991 . Ethics...