The egalitarianism of the eudemian ethics

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 411-432

  Pakalk, M ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61249692284     PISSN: 00098388     EISSN: 14716844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cq/48.2.411     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. Anthony Kenny, The Aristotelian Ethics (Oxford, 1978). Kenny briefly discusses and (see chart, bottom of p. 148), but he groups together all 'cognates' of each word (e.g. all occurrences of get grouped with those of); hence, he misses the phenomena I consider here. He remarks, concerning his pooled data: 'by our tests the differences between AE [i.e. the common books] and EE are insignificant, those between AE and NE significant' (p. 149). I have called the difficulties that arise from this way of gathering data 'the problem of homonymy'
2. See my review of Kenny's Aristotle on the Perfect Life (Oxford, 1992) in Ancient Philosophy 15 (1995), 233-45
3. I derive these figures from Kenny, Aristotelian Ethics, pp. 92-6
4. L. Spengel, 'Uber die unter dem Namen des Aristoteles erhaltenen Ethischen Schriften' in Abhandlungen der Philosophisch- Philologischen Classe der Königlich Baycrischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, (Munich, III.i, 1841; III.iii, 1843)
5. See D. J. Allan, 'Quasi-mathematical method in the Eudemian Ethics', in S. Mansion (ed.), Aristote et les problèmes de méthode (Louvain, 1961), pp. 303-18. 'The method which an author adopts in an inquiry', Allan writes, 'is largely determined by his conception of its purpose, and we may begin by asking whether our two versions set before themselves the same general aim' (p 304)
6. See A.-H. Chroust, Aristotle (University of Notre Dame, 1973), vol. I
7. Max Scheler correctly notes in his The Nature of Sympathy, trans. Peter Heath (Hamden, CT, 1973) that, 'Whereas the tendency in modern times has been to take up ideas which have been unconsciously acquired and thought a thousand times, and put them forward as new and original, the older (medieval) habit was to extract ideas which actually were new and original from such authors as were invested with special authority' (p. 254). But this habit is peripatetic as well as medieval
8. Its use of analysis for the three forms of friendship seems to be an instance of this, since that analysis, it seems, cannot be made to work, as A. Price and others have urged. See Anthony Price, Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle (Oxford, 1989), pp. 134ff