Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates
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- ISBN 9780226080505
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2008
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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What is the good life for a human being? Aristotle's exploration of this question in the "Nicomachean Ethics" has established it as a founding work of Western philosophy, though its teachings have long puzzled readers and provoked spirited discussion. Adopting a radically new point of view, Ronna Burger deciphers some of the most perplexing conundrums of this influential treatise by approaching it as Aristotle's dialogue with the Platonic Socrates. Tracing the argument of the Ethics as it emerges through that approach, Burger's careful reading shows how Aristotle represents ethical virtue from the perspective of those devoted to it while standing back to examine its assumptions and implications.
Ronna Burger is professor of philosophy at Tulane University.
