
HoP 046 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's theory of the human good is like a theory of human flourishing, almost a biological approach to ethics. Aristotle makes that analogy because he wants to stop him doing his job too much. In the case of ethics, our job is al we're eventually going to try and make our lives better. And yes, we need to talk about human nature but we don't need to go to the same level of depth as Aristotelian psychology or metaphysics.
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