
HoP 046 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's ethics is aimed at an audience of would be politicians. He does not refer to it as a work of ethics, he refers to it always as the work of politics. In order to study legislation, we have to launch into another work. Ande in the very last chapter of the ethics, ana the very last paragraph, he tells us a what the next project would be. It sounds a bit like a list of contents of the politics. But the point is that the volume one is telling us in and some detail what the human good is. Volume two is getting down to the details of how you go about realizing that. You actually have to have laws setting out what
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