Aristotle's Ethics: Moral Development & Human Nature

Aristotle's Ethics: Moral Development & Human Nature

Chapter 3: Ethical Virtue as Developmental Prerequisite for Contemplative Excellence

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In this chapter, May continues to build her developmentalist interpretation of the Nicomachean Ethics. Here, she shows how excellent contemplative activity is a developed ability that presupposes both affective and cognitive preconditions. The virtues of character or moral virtues, May argues, provide the affective and cognitive “seeds” out of which excellent contemplative activity grows.

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