Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics in Today’s Disjointed World

Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics in Today’s Disjointed World

Spring (9 - 13 hours) | This course is completed

Online Lebanon, NH 03766 United States

Online Meeting

NEW

5/12/2020-6/16/2020

11:30 AM-1:30 PM EDT on Tue

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$60.00

We will look at key parts of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and his Politics to see whether his views make sense today. In the Ethics, Aristotle makes what seems to us now to be a crazy claim - that the best life for us is a political life. Given how nasty and mendacious politics seems to be now, how in the world could that make sense? We will explore what Aristotle in the Ethics lays out as a good life and also how he views politics in his Politics. We will also do more modern readings on Aristotle and maybe even draft a guest speaker.

  • Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle (with Bartlett) (ISBN-13: 978-0226026756)
  • Aristotle’s Politics - Aristotle (with Carnes Lord) (ISBN-13: 978-0226921846)

  • There is a required reading packet.
Ronan, Joseph

Joseph Ronan is an attorney living in Sharon, Vermont with his wife, a retired neurologist who is now a visual artist and part-time ski instructor. Joseph was educated at Friends Select School in Philadelphia, has a BA in philosophy from Haverford College, a JD and LLM from NYU Law School, and an MA in English (thesis on Wallace Stevens) from Rutgers-Camden. He is now working on an MA in philosophy. He professes no special insight into Irish poetry, just a high degree of interest.