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RESEARCH ARTICLE
A Brief Account of the Relation between Prudence and Decision in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
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1 Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Bölümü 58140, Sivas , TR
Received: 19 February 2015 | Published online: 13 April 2015
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Abstract
Aristotle’s ethical theory tells us how happiness gives shape to the human life. Happiness containing within itself the effort toward the end especially manifests itself in using the tools, which will enable us to acquire our ultimate end, skillfully. This study aims to give a brief account of how the relationship between prudence and decision, which correspond to two of these tools, is established in his Nicomachean Ethics for understanding the conceptual framework of his moral philosophy.
Keywords
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
ecision
prudence
happiness
virtue
soul.
References
- Aristotle (1985). Nicomachean Ethics (trans. T. Irwin). Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company.
- Aristotle (1997a). Metaphysics (trans. W. D. Ross). The Complete Works of Aristotle, vol. II (ed. J. Barnes). Oxford: Princeton University Press.
- Aristotle (1997b). Politics (trans. B. Jowett). The Complete Works of Aristotle, vol. II (ed. J. Barnes). Oxford: Princeton University Press.
- Bakalis, N. (2005). Handbook of Greek Philosophy: From Thales to the Stoics Analysis and Fragments. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing.
