Aristotle's Ethics

3 credits

The class will explore Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We focus on such themes as Aristotle's understanding of moral virtue, intellectual virtue, and the role of friendship in ethical character and action, always keeping in mind the questions of justice, pleasure, philosophy and the highest human good. This class concludes by comparing ethics in Aristotle's thought to that of Thomas Hobbes. **Permission of the Department Head is required to register.** *Note: Students may receive credit for one of PHIL 880AP, PHIL 310AK, PHIL 312, PHIL 410AK, or PHIL 412.*