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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Nicomachean Ethics"”.
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Seeing the good : moral perception in Aristotle's "Nicomachean ethics".
This dissertation argues that Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics and Politics offers a unified conception of a human activity of and capacity for perceiving the justice, nobility or goodness of moral actions and agents. This perception (aisthēsis), which I call "moral perception," serves as a …
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Virtue at Hogwarts: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Through The Lens of J.K. Rowling's Sorting System
Exploring how Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is reflected and developed through the Sorting System of J.K. Rowling’s magical school of Hogwarts in her Harry Potter series, this paper considers each house and its characteristic virtues individually. Alongside a comparison of a particular virtue as …
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Interpretation as epieikeia: Aristotelian ethics as a paradigm for Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics
… opus, Truth and Method (1960)―and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Though he patiently waits until two thirds of the book to explicitly make such a rapprochement, Gadamer unambiguously claims Aristotle's Ethics to provide no less than a “kind of model of the problems of hermeneutics”―a proximity …
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Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies
"Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics in Shakespeare's Tragedies" examines two of Shakespeare's most compelling tragedies--Othello and King Lear--through the lens of contemporary virtue ethics theory, thereby offering new conceptions of how morality operates in these plays. Although …
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Interpreting Aristotle's God
… De Anima , the Physics , the Metaphysics and Nicomachean Ethics . The texts are studied in the light of contemporary Aristotelian scholarship representing the varying positions and their implications concerning Aristotle's theism. Second, on the basis of these five works, I argue that …
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EXPLORING A DEFINITION OF LEADERSHIP AND THE BIOGRAPHY OF DR. FRANK B. WYNN
… leadership terms, an exploration of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Categories, an examination of the criteria for accurate definition, and finally a reconstructed biography of Dr. Frank B.Wynn.
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EXPLORING A DEFINITION OF LEADERSHIP AND THE BIOGRAPHY OF DR. FRANK B. WYNN
… leadership terms, an exploration of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Categories, an examination of the criteria for accurate definition, and finally a reconstructed biography of Dr. Frank B.Wynn.
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Prudence in Aristotle and ST. Thomas Aquinas
… especially in his Commentary on Aristotle’s 'Nicomachean Ethics He teaches that prudence is a virtue of the practical intellect that is related in a particularly close way to the moral virtues. In order to be morally good, a person needs the moral virtues, and these in turn need the judgment …
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Less than ideal? The intellectual history of male friendship and its articulation in early modern drama
… of early modern translations of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, and in particular, Seneca’s De beneficiis, both of which open up meanings of different formulations and practices of friendship. This thesis, then, analyses how dramatists contributed to the discourse of male friendship through …
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Comparing Hobbes's Gratitude and Aristotle's Magnanimity
… and friendships that accompany virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics. However, Hobbes would problematize Aristotle’s magnanimous person (or the great-souled man) because they reject gratitude for their benefactions on the account that nothing seems great to them. Furthermore, the great-souled man …
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Wired & dangerous: hacks, hair extensions and other twists on traditional technical communication
… of mind' or modes of inquiry outlined in the Nicomachean Ethics, as well as Johnson's user-centered theory, this dissertation examines 2 extra-institutional sites in which users generate and organize their own technical documentation: Hackaday.org, a hacker database consisting of an …
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MEASURING CPA SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AT THE BUSINESS OWNER LEVEL: INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION.
… expert panel, this paper uses the grounding of Nicomachean Ethics to derive the definitions and elucidate the underlying dimensions of CPA Social Responsibility. Further, the study uses power analysis, factor analysis, scree plots, multidimensional scaling, perceptual maps, and a sequential …
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Aristotle's Explanation for the Value of the External Goods
… within the terms of his ethical theory in the Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle claims that to live in a worthwhile and subjectively satisfying way--that is, to achieve eudaimonia--one needs such things as honor, wealth, friends, and political power. He groups these things together as the external …
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Law in Aristotle's ethical-political thought
… is a natural law theorist. According to Nicomachean Ethics V.7, only the best constitution provides a standard of natural justice. Other passages usually thought to indicate Aristotle held a natural law view either are poor sources for Aristotle's view or have little to do with natural …
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Aristotle's liberality.
… expands upon these considerations in the Nicomachean Ethics in his account of the virtue concerned with the use of money—liberality. Here he emphasizes the widespread danger that stinginess—the vice of excessive concern for money—poses to human life, arguing that common human preoccupation …
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Liberal Education and the Best Regime: Aristotle’s Freedom of the Soul
… as described in the Eudemian Ethics. The noble-and-good human being has all the necessary and measured amounts of both the external goods and the goods of the body. This human being also has complete virtue and pursues the goods of the soul to excess culminating in a life …
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Eudaimonia: Utilizing Aristotle's Good Life to Inform Organizational Communication to Reimagine Human Resources Management
… of a person living said good life. In the Nicomachean Ethics (NE) Aristotle talks about what he calls the good life. The idea is that one engages in certain activities with the expressed purpose of attaining some good.</p> <p>A discussion of what human resources according to Aristotle …
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Like the green bay tree : the necessity of virtue for happiness.
… on the other hand, provide a complex account of ethics that allows us to respond to the serious challenges our central thesis still faces, most notably cultural relativism and the apparent counterexamples provided by the green bay trees that surround us all. I conclude that there is substantial …
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Italian Heroic Portraits in the Sixteenth Century
The dissertation is the first study of heroic portraiture in Italy in the sixteenth century. With the term heroic, which is presented and justified in the introduction to the thesis, I qualify independent portraits in all media in which the sitter is represented in the guise of a mythological, …