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dc.contributor.advisorAnnas, Juliaen
dc.contributor.advisorKamtekar, Rachanaen
dc.contributor.authorSolis, Eric Matthew
dc.creatorSolis, Eric Matthewen
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-23T18:47:26Z
dc.date.available2017-08-23T18:47:26Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/625328
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I provide an interpretation of Aristotle’s account of moral vice and argue (1) that Aristotle's account is consistent, and (2) that Aristotle is not committed to the view that all vicious agents are incapable of improving their characters. The main argument attempts to show that a proper interpretation of Aristotle's account of vice must observe a distinction between what Aristotle recognizes as two distinct sorts of vicious agents: those who are capable of change, and those who are not. I argue that this distinction amounts to the same thing as what I call the distinction between curably and incurably vicious agents. Recognizing this distinction and drawing out the ideas which ground it, I argue, shows that Aristotle's account of vice is consistent, and that he is not committed to the view that all vicious agents are incapable of improving their characters.
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherThe University of Arizona.en
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dc.subjectAristotleen
dc.subjectCurableen
dc.subjectIncurableen
dc.subjectViceen
dc.subjectVirtueen
dc.titleCurable and Incurable Vice in Aristotleen_US
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dc.typeElectronic Thesisen
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Arizonaen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
dc.contributor.committeememberAnnas, Juliaen
dc.contributor.committeememberKamtekar, Rachanaen
dc.contributor.committeememberRussell, Danielen
thesis.degree.disciplineGraduate Collegeen
thesis.degree.disciplinePhilosophyen
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-19T16:30:03Z
html.description.abstractIn this thesis I provide an interpretation of Aristotle’s account of moral vice and argue (1) that Aristotle's account is consistent, and (2) that Aristotle is not committed to the view that all vicious agents are incapable of improving their characters. The main argument attempts to show that a proper interpretation of Aristotle's account of vice must observe a distinction between what Aristotle recognizes as two distinct sorts of vicious agents: those who are capable of change, and those who are not. I argue that this distinction amounts to the same thing as what I call the distinction between curably and incurably vicious agents. Recognizing this distinction and drawing out the ideas which ground it, I argue, shows that Aristotle's account of vice is consistent, and that he is not committed to the view that all vicious agents are incapable of improving their characters.


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