GENEROSITY AND INEQUALITY IN ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS.
In: Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought, Jg. 28 (2011-10-01), Heft 2, S. 267-278
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This article explores the virtues of generosity and magnificence in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Generosity involves private individuals giving moderately; magnificence is spending by individuals on a grand scale for public purposes. Inequality, it is argued, grounds and motivates these virtues. For Aristotle, generosity and magnificence are products of inherited wealth, and the generous and the magnificent person seek the noble in their actions rather than the benefit of their recipients. The generous and the magnificent intend to place themselves in a superior position to those who receive their gifts. Moreover, magnificence flows from a great inequality of wealth and requires that the provision of public goods be in private hands. Aristotle, this article suggests, means to critique rather than embrace these virtues by pointing to the inequality and privacy at their foundation. The way in which Aristotle's theory of justice supplements his analysis of generosity and magnificence is also brought to light. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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GENEROSITY AND INEQUALITY IN ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Ward, Ann |
Zeitschrift: | Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought, Jg. 28 (2011-10-01), Heft 2, S. 267-278 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2011 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0142-257X (print) |
DOI: | 10.1163/20512996-90000188 |
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