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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Aristotle
Aristotle
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Essay Questions and Bibliography
Questions And Answers For Review
1. What is the historical significance of Aristotle's ethical theory?
Answer: Aristotle's ethical theory marks the definite separation of
individual moral values with social ethics. In making this separation
definitive, Aristotle in many respects was following in the steps of his
teacher, Plato. Plato took ethics out of the sphere of the purely political
and made it superior to politics. His great contribution to philosophy was the
recognition of phronesis, or moral intelligence, as the ...
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