PHIL 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Street Smarts, Eudaimonia, Akrasia
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Class: aristotle: the ethics (i, ii, iii) Many thinkers (including some women) believe that aristotle"s ethics can be extracted from the sexist frame work. We should deliberate whether this is so when studying aristotle. Ethics is political science according to aristotle (the science of getting by in the city) To be ethical is to have been raised properly. Again, each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic. To criticize a particular subject, therefore, a man must have been trained in that subject: to be a good critic generally, he must have had an all-round education. Hence the young are not fit to be students of political science. For they have no experience of life and conduct, and it is these that supply the premises and subject matter of this branch of philosophy.
