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290 p. 15,2 x 3,8 x 22,9 cm,Originalhardcover.

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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - very good condition - From the Introduction: In writing about ethics and about Aristotle?s Ethics, I see myself in the same position as the medieval Arab commentators on the Poetics. With no examples of the tragedies Aristotle was talking about to look at, their understanding of the Poetics was often comically distorted. I cannot write about Aristotle?s virtues from personal experience. I have never had the opportunity to show courage in battle or make magnificent decisions about great displays of wealth. My opportunities for choosing the mean about anger have to do more with freeway driving than with insults to political honor. And if, as I argue, Aristotle?s moral virtues are the virtues of citizens engaged in political activities of ruling, then even my experiences of temperance, liberality, and wittiness are only partial, since, apart from two weeks of jury duty and a day as a deposed witness, I lack the political experience that Aristotle makes central to living well. Many of my examples come from the limited experience of an academic facing challenges and making decisions concerning colleagues, students, and administrators. At one point I even appeal to the analogy of my experience with bicycle timetrials. Aristotle would not be pleased. ISBN 9780226283982