- Title
- Platonist curricula and their influence
- Creator
- Tarrant, Harold
- Relation
- The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism p. 15-29
- Relation
- Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
- Relation
- https://www.routledge.com/products/9781844656264
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- The philosophical texts that we study have a profound effect upon our approach to philosophy. Part of the reason for the existence of separate traditions in separate countries or separate universities is the ease with which one keeps returning to the texts that we have encountered early as being particularly important, and to have the desire to male some contribution to advancing the understanding of them. Hence today, because the vast majority of scholars have encountered the Nicomachean Ethics early in their study of Aristotle, this is the work that we hold to be important, the work to whose understanding we want to contribute. The "Aristotelian Ethics" means the Nicomachean Ethics. We may almost forget that three of its books are common to the Eudemian Ethics, that the other five books of that work are by no means obviously inferior, and that while it seems to lack a discussion of friendship it contains other material of some importance. As for the early Protrepticus and the suspect Magna Moralia, it is practically possible to ignore them. It is in the nature of any curriculum to open our eyes to certain things and to blind us to others, entrenching certain approaches and ensuring that the curriculum is self-perpetuating, though no inflexibly so.
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1293488
- Identifier
- uon:18610
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781317591368
- Language
- eng
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