caa a22 4500 469051868 CHVBK 20180323132832.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00140935 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00140935 Achtenberg Deborah Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada-Reno, 89557, Reno, NV, USA aut On the metaphysical presuppositions of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics [Elektronische Daten] [Deborah Achtenberg] Conclusion: In what precedes, I have argued that Aristotle does not, in his ethics, commit three metaphysical errors sometimes imputed to him: he does not define the good as a fact; he does not claim that human beings move by nature towards their telos; he does not claim, in the ergon argument, that human beings are fixed rather than versatile. Instead, I have shown, he does the opposite in each case: he argues that the good cannot be defined as a fact; he claims that human beings move towards their telos only if they have virtue and virtue is not by nature; he locates, in the human ergon, that which is responsible for human versatility. Finally, I have shown by example that the metaphysical commitments of Aristotle's account of human happiness are not as controversial as they seem. If all of this is true, then perhaps the disorder that has existed in ethics since the enlightenment has been misdiagnosed. Perhaps it is not due to an unhappy choice between end-neutral emotivism on the one hand and Aristotle's bad metaphysics on the other. Perhaps instead it is due, at least in part, to a too hasty rejection of Aristotle's ethics on the grounds of a rejection of his biology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 The Journal of Value Inquiry Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/3(1992-07-01), 317-340 0022-5363 26:3<317 1992 26 10790 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00140935 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00140935 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Achtenberg Deborah Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada-Reno, 89557, Reno, NV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Value Inquiry Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/3(1992-07-01), 317-340 0022-5363 26:3<317 1992 26 10790 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer