RT Article
T1 Particularism in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics*
JF Journal of moral philosophy
VO 10
IS 2
SP 121
OP 147
A1 Leibowitz, Uri D.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1817473115
AB In this essay I offer a new particularist reading of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. I argue that the interpretation I present not only helps us to resolve some puzzles about Aristotle’s goals and methods, but it also gives rise to a novel account of morality – an account that is both interesting and plausible in its own right. The goal of this paper is, in part, exegetical – that is, to figure out how to best understand the text of the Nicomachean Ethics. But this paper also aims to contribute to the current exciting and controversial debate over particularism. By taking the first steps towards a comprehensive particularist reading of Aristotle’s Ethics I hope to demonstrate that some of the mistrust of particularism is misplaced and that what is, perhaps, the most influential moral theory in the history of philosophy is, arguably, a particularist moral theory.
K1 Doctrine of the Mean
K1 Nicomachean Ethics
K1 Aristotle
K1 Generalism
K1 Particularism
DO 10.1163/174552412X628904