Objections to Martha Nussbaum’s interpretation about the contemplative activity in the Book X 6-8 of Nicomachean Ethics

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  • Maura Alejandra Cifuentes Ortiz National Pedagogic University

Keywords:

happiness, contemplative activity, active life, autarchy, common life

Abstract

This paper aims to show how the evolutionary interpretation presented by the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum about the Book X 6-8 of Nicomachean Ethics is incompatible with the binding between the active and contemplative life that Aristotle seeks to link in that Book. With this in mind, I will divide the text in four parts. First I will expose the two lifestyles presented by Aristotle in the Book: lifestyle according to the intellectual virtue of wisdom —contemplative life— and lifestyle as the ethical virtues and the intelectual virtue of prudence —practical or active life—. After I will discuss the interpretation given by Nussbaum and then I will present some objections to it. Finally, I will draw an interpretation by linking both conflicting lifestyles.

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2015-07-29

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Cifuentes Ortiz, M. A. (2015). Objections to Martha Nussbaum’s interpretation about the contemplative activity in the Book X 6-8 of Nicomachean Ethics. Versiones. Philosophy’s Journal, (7), 6–36. Retrieved from https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/versiones/article/view/23583

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