Confronting Aristotle's Ethics: Ancient and Modern Morality

Reviews:
"Garver''s interpretation is original and provocative of a re-examination of Aristotle''s system and its significance for contemporary ethical questions." -- Mary Veronica Sabelli "Review of Metaphysics"
"Confronting Aristotle's Ethics is a wonderfully rigorous, systematic study of Aristotle's ethics, focusing on the difficult relations among dynameis, kineseis, and energeiai. These illuminate the relations between an activity's external goals/ends (defending the city) and internal goals/ends (acting courageously for the sake of courage and virtue), and go some considerable way to showing that Aristotle's ethics are political, making sense only in good polities, and also metaphysical, and that the metaphysical, in turn, must be understood in terms of the ethical. Garver powerfully shows what is attractive and what is repellant in Aristotle. A genuine tour de force-one of the most instructive and confronting works on Aristotle that we have."--Michael Stocker, Syracuse University (Michael Stocker 20060223)
"Throughout Garver offers fresh perspectives that illuminate Aristotle's ethics and its application to contemporary life. Even where one might disagree with him, one will benefit from grappling with his ideas. Well worth reading."--Norman Dahl, University of Minnesota (Norman Dahl )
"Garver''s interpretation is original and provocative of a re-examination of Aristotle''s system and its significance for contemporary ethical questions." (Mary Veronica Sabelli Review of Metaphysics )
"This is a smart, inventive, highly original, and important contribution to our understanding of Aristotle. Eugene Garver has a clear and unified vision of Aristotle's project in ethics and, in particular, of the importance of Aristotelian politics and metaphysics in this understanding. His is an entirely new and refreshing approach, one that challenges many of the mainstream accounts of Aristotle. Overall, a healthy corrective to the appropriation and co-option of Aristotle by common sense and ordinary language philosophy that began towards the middle of last century."--Charles Young, Claremont Graduate School (Charles Young )