Bridging the gap between Aristotle's science and ethics /edited By Devin Henry and Karen Margrethe Nielsen.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Ethical first principles -- Aristotle on principles in ethics : political science as the science of the human good / Practical and theoretical knowledge in Aristotle / Aristotle on practical and theoretical knowledge / Virtue and reason in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics / Enquiry and explanation -- Endoxa, facts, and the starting points of the Nicomachean Ethics / Scientific and ethical methods in Aristotle's Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics / The search for definitions of justice in Nicomachean Ethics 5 / Holding for the most part : the demonstrability of moral facts / Ethics and the natural sciences -- Aristotle on the biological roots of virtue : the natural history of natural virtue / Aristotle on knowing natural science for the sake of living well / The science of soul in Aristotle's Ethics / Luck in Aristotle's Physics and Ethics / 'As if by convention alone' : the unstable ontology of Aristotle's Ethics / Karen Margrethe Nielsen -- James V. Allen -- David Charles -- Mary Louise Gill -- Joseph Karbowski -- Daniel Devereux -- Carlo Natali -- Devin Henry -- James G. Lennox -- Mariska Leunissen -- Christopher Shields -- Monte Ransome Johnson -- Charlotte Witt.
This book consolidates emerging research on Aristotle's science and ethics in order to explore the extent to which the concepts, methods, and practices he developed for scientific inquiry and explanation are used to investigate moral phenomena. Each chapter shows, in a different way, that Aristotle's ethics is much more like a science than it is typically represented. The upshot of this is twofold. First, uncovering the links between Aristotle's science and ethics promises to open up new and innovative directions for research into his moral philosophy. Second, showing why Aristotle thinks ethics can never be fully assimilated to the model of science will help shed new light on his views about the limits of science. The volume thus promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the epistemological, metaphysical, and psychological foundations of Aristotle's ethics.