Cognition of Value in Aristotle’s Ethics: Promise of Enrichment, Threat of Destruction

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Cognition of Value in Aristotle鈥檚 Ethics: Promise of Enrichment, Threat of Destruction

Deborah Achtenberg

Role: Author

With this new interpretation, Deborah Achtenberg argues that metaphysics is central to ethics for Aristotle and that the ethics can be read on two levels: imprecisely, in terms of its own dialectically grounded and imprecise claims; or in terms of the metaphysical terms and concepts that give the ethics greater articulation and depth.