{"product_id":"living-together-essays-on-aristotles-ethics-hardcover","title":"Living Together: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Whiting\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiving Together: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e is one of three volumes collecting previously published essays by Jennifer Whiting. This volume explores Aristotle's conception of \u003cem\u003eeudaimonia\u003c\/em\u003e, especially the roles played in it by the theoretical and practical activities central to human lives and by the quality of our relationships with one another. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhiting explores Aristotle's struggle to reconcile the desirability of living in accordance with justice and other distinctively human virtues with the ideal of pursuing the \"divine\" life of contemplation. She focuses on Aristotle's attempts to reconcile his conception of \u003cem\u003eeudaimonia \u003c\/em\u003eas the ultimate end of human action with the parallel requirements that virtuous agents choose to engage in virtuous action \"for itself\" and that friends love their friends \"for themselves\". Drawing on her original reading of Aristotle's conception of the ideal friend as an \"other self\", Whiting challenges common readings of Aristotle's \u003cem\u003eeudaimonism\u003c\/em\u003e as a form of rational egoism. She stresses appreciation of the friend's character \"for itself\", and apart from any relationships in which it happens to stand to the agent's own needs and\/or tastes, but calls attention to the important and often neglected role that Aristotle assigns to pleasure in this relationship. The ideal friend recognizes the value her friend's activity has \u003cem\u003efor her friend \u003c\/em\u003eand so takes pleasure in the \u003cem\u003efriend's activity as such\u003c\/em\u003e. This explains why the maximally self-sufficient (and so most godlike) agent, who needs nothing from a friend, will nevertheless choose to have at least one or two: she enjoys their company.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Whiting\u003c\/strong\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught at Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Toronto (where she was Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy). She has been a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Cornell's Society for Humanities and has received fellowships from the ACLS, Howard Foundation, and NEH. In 2006, she received the Royal Society of Canada's Konrad Adenauer Research Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.99 x 9.29 x 6.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 29, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47224150917369,"sku":"9780199969678","price":196.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/XuT6z0bZ5q9780199969678.webp?v=1768234698","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/living-together-essays-on-aristotles-ethics-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}