Pleasure and the “Ascent” of Moral Virtue in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

• In Event: Politics and the Education of the Passions

Brief Overview

This paper reproduces the ascent in Aristotle’s presentation of the particular moral virtues from courage to justice and highlights an important shift of attitude toward pleasures and pains in the movement of that account.

Author

• Abigail M. Staysa, The University of Texas at Austin