
HoP 046 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Ethics and Politics - Is There a Difference?
The aristotle has, i suppose, what nowadays you might call a paternalist concept of political philosophy. The political leader really is out to impose, but perhaps develop, a very specific conception of virtue within the citizens of the state. Anything that you could say about private virtue will have knock on consequences for political questions. And in that case, the whole question of the voluntarian of responsibility would kind of connect both two - narrowly ethical questions and more political contexts.
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