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Aristotle's Bad Advice about Becoming Good

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Howard J. Curzer
Howard J. Curzer
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Texas Tech University
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Philosophy , Volume 71 , Issue 275 , January 1996 , pp. 139 - 146
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1996

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References

1 All quotations from Aristotle are taken from The Complete Works of Aristotle, ed. Barnes, J. (Princeton University Press, 1984) except that I translate arete by ‘virtue’ rather than by ‘excellence’.Google Scholar

2 e.g. Hardie, W. F. R., Aristotle's Ethical Theory (Oxford University Press, 1968),134–135;Google ScholarUrmson, J. O., ‘Aristotle Doctrine of the Mean,’ Essays on Aristotle's Ethics, ed. Rorty, A. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), 162.Google Scholar

3 Note that although performers of vicious acts can become virtuous, vicious people cannot (1114A19-21; 1150A21-22; 1150b29-34).

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7 Annas, 289.