Pleasure as a sign of moral virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 439-449

  Wielenberg, Erik ^a  

^a DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1023/A:1004789314730     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans., W.D. Ross, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963), 1099a, 15-20.
2. Ibid., 1104b, 6-9.
3. Sarah Broadie, Ethics with Aristotle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 91.
4. Ibid., p. 318.
5. Shane Drefcinski, "Aristotle's Fallible Phronimos," Ancient Philosophy 16, Spring 1996, p. 151.
6. Ibid.
7. See Fred Feldman, "Two Questions About Pleasure," in his Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and Desert (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 82-105.
8. Aristotle, op. cit., 1104b, 6-9.
9. Ibid., 1117a, 30-35 and 1117b, 5-10.
10. Ibid., 1117a, 30-35 and 1117b, 5-10.
11. Ibid., 1104b, 6-9.
12. Ibid., 1113a, 30-35. But see Gary Watson, "Free Agency," Journal of Philosophy 72 (April 1975).
13. Ibid., 1113a, 30-35. But see Gary Watson, "Free Agency," Journal of Philosophy 72 (April 1975).
14. See Lester Hunt, "Character and Thought," American Philosophical Quarterly 15(3) (July 1978).
15. Aristotle, op. cit., 1118b, 30-35.
16. Ibid., 1104b, 6-9.
17. Ibid., 1099a, 15-20.
18. Ibid., 1117b, 10-20.
19. Ibid., 1113a, 30-35.
20. Broadie, op. cit., p. 91.
21. Robert C. Roberts, "Aristotle on Virtues and Emotions," Philosophical Studies 56, p. 304.
22. Aristotle, Rhetoric, in The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle, trans. W. Rhys Roberts, (New York: Random House, 1954), 1378b, 1-5.
23. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1382a, 20-22.
24. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1175a, 5.
25. Ibid., 1175a, 28-29.
26. Ibid., 1175a, 28-29.
27. I would like to thank Fred Feldman, Gary Matthews, and an anonymous referee for the Journal of Value Inquiry for helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.