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Nicomachean Ethics (nicomachean + ethics)
Selected AbstractsThe multifaceted structure of nursing: an Aristotelian analysis,NURSING PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2002Beverly J. B. Whelton PhD MSN RN Abstract A careful reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics focusing on his treatment of politics reveals a multifaceted discipline with political science, legislation, practice and ethics. These aspects of the discipline bear clear resemblance to the multiple conceptions of nursing. The potential that nursing is a multifaceted discipline, with nursing science as just one facet challenges the author's own conception of nursing as a practical science. Aristotle's discussion would seem to argue that nursing science is nursing, but nursing is more. Nursing is also ethical practice, or art, and legislative for health. The multifaceted discipline of politics is united by the end, the common good, a just community that makes human happiness possible. Reasoning in this way, nursing is unified by its end, health of individuals and communities. Since nursing is not unique in having health as its end, this discussion ends with the question of where its uniqueness lies, i.e. within the activities or the personal presence of its practitioners. This discussion also contains some of the contemporary ethical and legislative challenges with which nursing is confronted. [source] Aristotle's Introduction to the Problem of Happiness: On Book I of the Nicomachean EthicsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, Issue 3 2008Robert C. Bartlett The study of Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics is useful today in part because it deals with a question,the nature of human happiness,whose relevance is obvious. But in dealing with that question, Book I compels us to raise difficulties for ourselves that, far from being obvious, are in danger of being forgotten. Chief among these difficulties are, first, the true character of our hope for happiness and, ultimately, the necessity of there being a kind of divine providence if that hope is to be realized. Inasmuch as we still long for happiness, we must still undergo the pull of that necessity, however distant it may appear to us to be. In bringing out our deepest concern in this way, the study of the first book of the Ethics also prepares us to become serious students of Aristotle's "philosophy of human matters" as a whole, which is concerned with the reality of providence because it is concerned with the possibility of philosophy as a way of life. [source] Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean Ethics , Ronna BurgerTHE PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Issue 240 2010Tom Angier No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||