Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the 'Nicomachean Ethics.'

摘要

While Aristotle had no opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the actual Socrates, Burger shows that he did dialogue with "Socrates," a construction by Aristotle which also allowed Aristotle to frame the topic of ethical virtue in a manner that defends ethical virtue as well as implying certain problems with it. Since the work, as Burger interprets it, is addressed to those who have been brought up well but also are themselves troubled by their upbringing, perplexed about the beautiful and the just, Aristotle can provide both a way of satisfying their concerns by appearing to justify the life of ethical virtue but also revealing to those who recognize the problems Aristotle raises to engage in thinking through the full import of his speech.