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Vice in Ancient Philosophy

Vice in Ancient Philosophy
  • Plato and Aristotle on Moral Ignorance and Corruption of Character
  • Karen Margrethe Nielsen
  • Published online:
    19 December 2023
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024
  • Ancient philosophers offer intriguing accounts of vice – virtue's bad twin. This Element considers injustice and lawlessness in Plato and Aristotle. Starting with Socrates' paradoxical claim that 'tyrants and orators do just about nothing they want to do' (Gorgias 466d-e), it examines discussions of moral ignorance and corruption of character in Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle's account of vice is indebted to Plato's. But his claims have confounded critics. Why is the vicious agent full of regrets when he acts in accordance with his wish? To what extent is vice a form of moral ignorance? Why will the unjust man never get what he wants? These and other questions yield new insights into ancient Greek ethics and moral psychology, as well as surprising perspectives on contemporary debates.

  • No King and No Torture: Kant on Suicide and Law

  • Jennifer Uleman
  • Journal:
    Kantian Review / Volume 21 / Issue 1 / March 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 February 2016, pp. 77-100
    Print publication:
    March 2016

  • Kant’s most canonical argument against suicide, the universal law argument, is widely dismissed. This paper attempts to save it, showing that a suicide maxim, universalized, undermines all bases for practical law, resisting both the non-negotiable value of free rational willing and the ordinary array of sensuous commitments that inform prudential incentives. Suicide therefore undermines moral law-governed community as a whole, threatening ‘savage disorder’. In pursuing this argument, I propose a non-teleological and non-theoretical nature – a ‘practical nature’ or moral law governed whole – the realization of which morality demands.