Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 349
Trim: 6¾ x 9
978-0-8476-8915-6 • Paperback • December 1998 • $77.00 • (£59.00)
978-0-585-21403-0 • eBook • January 2000 • $73.00 • (£56.00)
Nancy Sherman is professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and the inaugural holder of the Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 1 Permanent Happiness: Aristotle and Solon
Chapter 4 2 Aristotle on Virtue and Happiness
Chapter 5 3 Aristotle on Eudaimonia
Chapter 6 4 Aristotle on the Human Good: An Overview
Chapter 7 5 A False Doctrine of the Mean
Chapter 8 6 Virtue and Reason
Chapter 9 7 The Discernment of Perception: An Aristotelian Conception of Private and Public Rationality
Chapter 10 8 Aristotle on Akrasia, Eudaimonia, and the Psychology of Action
Chapter 11 9 Aristotle on Learning to Be Good
Chapter 12 10 The Habituation of Character
Chapter 13 11 Being Properly Affected: Virtues and Feelings in Aristotle's Ethics
Chapter 14 12 Friendship and the Good in Aristotle
Chapter 15 13 Feminism and Aristotle's Rational Ideal
Part 16 Suggested Readings
Part 17 Authors
These are wonderful essays that every scholar of Aristotle, Aquinas, virtue theory, or the ethics of character will want to have.
— Diana Fritz Cates, University of Iowa; Religious Studies Review
The book is valuable for displaying the breadth of issues taken up by contemporary scholars over the past twenty-five years in the English-speaking world.
— Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
An excellent contemporary collection of essays on the Ethics, covering all major dimensions of the work.
— Dan O'Bryan, Humanities Department, Sierra Nevada College
An excellent selection. I hope to use it within the next few years.
— David Bradshaw, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky
There is more than enough here to whet the appetites of upper-division undergraduates and beginning graduate students.
— E. Halper,, University of Georgia; Choice Reviews