Halkyon Yearbook
Johannes A. Niederhauser
Introducing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
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Introducing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

On the crucial theoria-praxis distinction

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is usually read as the foundational text of so-called Virtue Ethics. That is fair enough. However, the text itself also harbours deeper layers that have been with us in the European trajectory, the main one being the distinction between theoria and praxis, which I address here and in my course on the Nicomachean Ethics.

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