The Conflict between Aristotle's Virtue and Modern Political Realism

PDF (ελληνικά)
Published: Jun 18, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/conatus.16036
Keywords:
virtue eudemonia good cognitive virtue moral virtue
Vasilios Vranas
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-4798
Abstract
The political arena from the Renaissance to the dawn of the 21st century has become more demanding and complex, with positions such as Aristotle's virtue seeming utopian or outdated. The present paper attempts to examine whether Aristotelian virtue and bliss can be achieved in a century plagued by the economic crisis, terrorism, migration and the crisis of values.
Article Details
  • Section
  • Articles
Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g. post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (preferably in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
References
Aristotle. Eudemian Ethics. Translated by Vasilios Betsakos. Athens: Zitros, 2018.
Aristotle. Magna Moralia. Translated by Vasilios Betsakos. Athens: Zitros, 2010.
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by Dimitrios Lipourlis. Athens: Zitros, 2006.
Aristotle. Politics. Translated by Pinelopi Tzioka-Evangelou. Athens: Zitros, 2005.
Carr, Edward Hallett. The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1946.
Coleman, Janet. A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Translated by Georgios Christidis. Athens: Kritiki, 2006.
Kraig, Robert Alexander. “The Tragic Science: The Uses of Jimmy Carter in Foreign Policy Realism.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 5, no. 1 (2002): 1-30.
Makris, Spiros. Nicollò Machiavelli: “Virtù” and Hermeneutic Spectres, A Study in the Modern and Contemporary History of Republicanism. Athens: Sideris, 2009.
Skinner, Quentin. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Translated by Marinos Sarigiannis. Athens: Alexandria, 2005.
Smith, Karen. Ethics and Foreign Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Steiris, George. “Machiavelli’s Appreciation of Greek Antiquity and the deal of Renaissance.” In Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c.1300 - c.1550, edited by Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté, and Harry Schnitker, 81-94. Amsterdam: Brill, 2010.
Walt, Stephen. “International Relations: One World, Many Theories.” Foreign Policy 110 (1998): 29-46.