Aristotle and Ricœur on Practical Reason

A. W. Price, Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle by Price, A. W. Review by: Susan Sauvé Meyer

Two Dualisms of Practical Reason

Dualism is one way to put the traditional dualism of practical reason, i.e., that practical reason can never declare that there is greater overall reason to conform to moral, or prudential, requirements in a case of conflict between our own self-interest and our obligations to others.1 In this paper, I distinguish two methods by which one might accept Dualism. First, I discuss a substantive dua...

Practical Reason and the Possibility of Error

On Sen and Aristotle

In this paper I maintain that Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) implies a recuperation of practical science in Economics. Sen’s proposal has some problems closely related to this practical character: the heterogeneity and incommensurability of capabilities, its ambiguity concerning the use of the term “capability”, and the consequent lack of operative character of the CA. Sen recognizes th...

On Aristotle and Economics

In this paper I offer a synthesis of previous contributions on Aristotle’s economic thought. Aristotle dealt with the economic issues in his practical philosophy. He thus considered ‘the economic’ within an ethical and political frame. This vision is coherent with Aristotle’s specific ontological analysis of ‘the economic’. In this paper, I consider this ontology and the consequences of it for ...