A few weeks back, I gave my last talk for the semester, presenting a paper at the
7th Felician Ethics conference, asking and answering the question just what does Aristotle mean by that slippery term
prohairesis?
Should it be taken to be what many translators -- at least in the
Nicomachean Ethics
-- have made it out to be, namely "deliberative choice"? Does that really encompass all of the uses Aristotle makes of this term, not only in the two Ethics, but also in works as diverse as the...
Published on May 10, 2013 19:02