menexenus

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by menexenus 7y ago
Aristotle's Ethics is indeed a foundational text. To simplify things greatly, there is basically only one alternative to it: Nietzsche. As Alasdair MacIntyre explains (the erstwhile Marxist, now Catholic, who helped revive virtue eth
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by menexenus 7y ago
For other readers looking at this comment, crazygringo is correct to point out that this view is a canard. If you're interested to learn what Aristotle actually wrote about these topics in the Ethics , see the following: 1) On utility
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by menexenus 8y ago
This is not correct. 1) It is true that for Aristotle, ethics and politics are closely linked. (Indeed, Aristotle announces in the last chapter of the Ethics that the whole book is actually the "beginning" to the Politics .) Bu
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by menexenus 8y ago
Isn't your statement itself an absolutist statement? (I.e., that trying to discredit relativism "means" something, as a matter of fact?) If you're being ironic here, well played.
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by menexenus 8y ago
Excellent point, thank you. You are right to say that we should not conflate the "ancients" into one monolithic category. Plato and Aristotle certainly disagreed on many key points, to say nothing of their divergence from other an
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by menexenus 8y ago
Interesting point, but I don't think you give the Bible enough credit. (For the record, I am not a believer, but I take religion quite seriously.) First, I don't think any Christian would agree with you that "The Bible is a s
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by menexenus 8y ago
This post is misguided on so many levels. It never once occurs to the author that the reason we still study the ancients is because they were right . Like 90% of HN readers, the author tacitly assumes that old == wrong/outmoded/b