The dialectical orthodoxy -- Dialectical reasoning and the dialectical craft -- The enterprise of philosophy -- Aristotle's scientific and flexible philosophical method -- Method in the Eudemian ethics -- Ethical precision and the practical necessity of episteme -- Facts, principles, and Aristotle's demonstrative ethical science -- Strategic flexibility in the Nicomachean ethics -- The autonomy of ethics.
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"This book examines Aristotle's method in ethics. Let me be clear that I do not think that Aristotle has an ethical "method" in the sense of a mechanical decision procedure for seeking ethical knowledge which eliminates the need for creative insight and judgment. In fact, his reliance upon judgment in his ethical inquiries, and philosophical inquiries more generally, is a major theme of this book"--