Eudaimonism and egocentricity in Aristotle

The Harvard Review of Philosophy (2013)
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The paper reiterates the account of Aristotle's conception of eudaimonia to be found in my monograph Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle, and then faces the charge that it makes the agent's motivation unattractively egocentric (viz. on his own eudaimonia).

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