Abstract According to agent-centered virtue ethics, acting well is not a matter of conforming agent-independent moral standards, like so as respect humanity or maximize utility. Instead, virtuous agents determine what called for in their circumstances through good practical reason. This an attractive view, but it requires plausible account how reason works. To that end, some theorists invoke th...

In Eudemian Ethics VIII.3, Aristotle treats a virtue that he calls kalokagathia, “nobility-and-goodness.” This appears to be quite important, and even identifies it with “perfect virtue” (EE 1249a17). makes puzzling the Nicomachean Ethics, text largely parallels does not discuss kalokagathia at all. I argue reason for this difference has do role intellectual practical wisdom (phronêsis) plays i...