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The Endoxon Mystique: What Endoxa Are And What They Are Not
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Frede, Dorothea |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | I this article I hope to demystify the authority of the endoxa in Aristotle. This is not to deny that there is any basis for that authority. But just as Betty Friedan’s ground-breaking work in the s, The Feminine Mystique, did not intend to deny the existence of the feminine but was concerned with debunking the ideology that had accrued to it, so the concern of this essay is only to deflate the importance attributed to the so-called endoxic method in Aristotle. This method nowadays is often hailed as the method in many introductions to his work, and most of all in those to his ethics. A fair witness of that view is RichardKraut’s article ‘How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle’s Method’. Kraut calls the endoxic method as presented in NE . – ‘the proposed method for testing the truth of ethical propositions’ and treats it as if it were Aristotle’s ubiquitously employed approach. In opposition to this by now widely accepted view, the present essay aims to show that and why the procedure in NE , properly understood, represents an exception rather than the rule. A closer look at Kraut’s account provides an adequate startingpoint: ‘In effect, then, his idea is that the first thing we must do, when we investigate a subject, is to pay careful attention to what seems to be the case to either everyone, or to most people, or to a special and smaller group—those who have studied the subject’ (). And Kraut supports this claim with Aristotle’s recommen- |
| Starting Page | 184 |
| Ending Page | 215 |
| Page Count | 32 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199666164.003.0007 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ancphil.lsa.umich.edu/-/downloads/osap/43-Frede.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso%2F9780199666164.003.0007 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
