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Alston, Aristotle, and Epistemic Normativity (pages 75-92)

Benjamin W. McCRAW ABSTRACT: Alston (2005) argues that there is no such thing as a single concept of epistemic justification. Instead, there is an irreducible plurality of epistemically valuable features of beliefs: ‘epistemic desiderata.’ I argue that this approach is problematic for meta-epistemological reasons. How, for instance, do we characterize epistemic evaluation and do we do we go about it …

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THE PRACTICAL LIFE, THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE, AND THE PERFECT EUDAIMONIA IN ARISTOTLE’S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS 10.7-8 (pages 31-49)

Timothy ROCHE ABSTRACT: Two views continue to be defended today. One is that the account of eudaimonia in EN 10 is inconsistent with claims made about it in other books of the work. The other view is that the account in EN 10 is consistent with other claims made in the other books because Aristotle presents one account of perfect …

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