Was Aristotle an "Aristotelian Social Democrat"?  

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Mulgan, Richard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 111 no. 1 (Oct. 2000), page 79-101.
Topik: Aristotle

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.11 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Although this articles is largely concerned with criticism, it is not intended in any way to belittle Martha Nussbaum's significant work on Greek ethical and political thought. She has done a greal deal to illuminate the subject and, in particular, to free it from the disciplinary fetters imposed by classics and philosophy with their different scholarly traditions and preoccupations. The author is in agreement with much of what she has to say, not only about the Greeks but also on more immediate matters of political and educational values, in particular in her eloquent defenses of social democracy and the humanities. On Aristotle, whose philosophy she places at the core of her philosophical and educational enterprise, her work is an enviable combination of expert scholarship and suggestive interpretation, combining the precision of the (mainly) British analytical school with the breadth of American liberal humanism. In her use of the Ethics, she has demonstated convincingly improvement on the dominant Kantian and utilitarian modes of our era and how it can be used as a pathway to a fuller understanding of moral knowledge, for instance, through the insights of literature. If the opportunity provided by this symposium is used to question some of Nussbaum's interpretations, that is simply because debate is intellectually more interesting than deferential acquiescence.

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