Overview
This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in the world. The main thesis is that, before any reference to values or to criteria about good and evil-that is, before any reference to specific ethical outlooks-one should explain the very materiality of what necessarily constitutes the 'moral world'. These claims are substantiated by means of a text- centered interpretation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in dialogue with contemporary moral realism. The book concludes with a critique of Heidegger's, Gadamer's and Arendt's approaches to Aristotle's ethics.
- | Author: Pavlos Kontos
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2013
- | Number of Pages: 210 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0415856744
- | ISBN-13: 9780415856744
