Aristotelian themes in critical ethical naturalism

Aristotelian Naturalism and the History of Ethics

terence irwin’s monumental three-volume The Development of Ethics is a masterful reconstruction and assessment of figures, traditions, and ideas in the history of ethics in the Western tradition from Socrates through John rawls. 1, 2 The three volumes weigh in at over 11 pounds and span 96 substantial chapters and over 2,700 densely formatted pages (large pages, small margins, and small font). ...

On Aristotle and Marx: A Critique of Aristotelian Themes in Marxist Labor Theory

This paper examines the influences of Aristotelian moral economic thought on Marx’s labor theory. This paper looks at certain moral ethical frameworks attributed to Aristotle and later used by Marx in developing his ideas on communism. The similarities between Marx’s labor theory and Aristotle’s ethical theories, including those on human flourishing (eudaimonia), justice and exchange, will be e...

critical naturalism and socio-political metatheory

socio-political metatheories based on ontological and epistemological foundations, could be devided to different objectivist and subjectivist fronts. according to such a devide, different interpretation of individual-society and agent-structure could be renderd. in contrast,critical metatheories that seek to transcend the contradiction between objectivity-subjectivity in the individual-society ...

Theoretical principles of ethical architecture in the holy Quran: On the basis of Aristotelian logic in Islamic school of thought

This research is a Qur'anic review that examines the effects of ethics on architecture from the Holy Qur'an’s point of view with the goal of introducing logical theoretical principals of ethical architecture. In order to reach the research goal, this research conducts the Induction, deduction and reverse extraction of research’s resulted theoretical concepts based on Aristotle's formal logic. T...

Positivism, Naturalism, and Anti- Naturalism in the Social Sciences