THE MORAL KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY FOR POLITICAL INQUIRY IN ARISTOTLE

Authors

  • Priscilla Tesch Spinelli (UFRGS) PUCRS/Brasil

Abstract

This essay aims at drawing attention to a requirement about the good student of politics, as presented by Aristotle in Book I of Nicomachean Ethics, namely, to be educated on good habits. The vicious is not a good student of politics because he is unable even to recognize the validity of its proposed discourse, and not simply because he is unable to act in accordance with that discourse, as T. Irwin has it. To acknowledge a practical argument as sound is, necessarily, to be motivated to act according to its conclusion. Aristotle requires good habits of his students because those habits are necessary in order to practically understand the development of his arguments. That is the sort of understanding of the political discourse which Aristotle wants his students to have; and that is the sort of understanding that the vicious is no longer able to have. KEY WORDS: Knowledge. Good habits. Practical understanding.

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Published

2009-10-13

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Spinelli (UFRGS), P. T. (2009). THE MORAL KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY FOR POLITICAL INQUIRY IN ARISTOTLE. Intuitio, 2(2), 103–107. Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/intuitio/article/view/5944

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2009)

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