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Garver, Eugene. Confronting Aristotle's Ethics: Ancient and Modern Morality.(Book review)
From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20071201
Author:Sabelli, Mary Veronica
GARVER, Eugene. Confronting Aristotle's Ethics: Ancient and Modern Morality. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. ix + 290 pp. Cloth, $49.00--Challenging the view that Aristotle's account of virtue can be revived in today's world, Eugene Garver argues that Aristotle's theory of virtue is tied to a social context so different from our own that his ethics cannot be transplanted into ours. Garver examines the problem within the framework of what he sees as the two essential elements of virtue for Aristotle: doing good things that effect good results for the ...
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