Philosophy Public Lecture-FR and SJ

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The Winter 2021 Lecture Series - UNB Department of Philosophy

Join the online lecture presented by Dr. Zena Hitz from Saint John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, entitled, "Incomplete Virtues in Aristotle's Politics."

Readers of the Nicomachean Ethics sometimes overlook the political context of the work and so commonly misunderstand its account of human happiness and human excellence. The full-fledged virtue of NE 2-5 is one found only in an ideal regime.  An account of the types of human excellence cultivated ordinary regimes, as found in the Politics, clarifies the scope and the nature of Aristotle’s ethical theory as situated in his political theory.  Once we see the view Aristotle presents to us, we can ask:  Is our moral life and our seeking of happiness something we can do as individuals?  Or is it primarily a social and political task?

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