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- Title
How Narrow is Aristotle's Contemplative Ideal?
- Authors
Walker, Matthew D.
- Abstract
In Nicomachean Ethics X.7-8, Aristotle defends a striking view about the good for human beings. According to Aristotle, the single happiest way of life is organized around philosophical contemplation. According to the narrowness worry, however, Aristotle's contemplative ideal is unduly Procrustean, restrictive, inflexible, and oblivious of human diversity. In this paper, I argue that Aristotle has resources for responding to the narrowness worry, and that his contemplative ideal can take due account of human diversity.
- Subjects
NICOMACHEAN Ethics (Book : Aristotle); CONTEMPLATIVE orders; HUMAN behavior; IDEALS (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY of mind
- Publication
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 2017, Vol 94, Issue 3, p558
- ISSN
0031-8205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/phpr.12194