Aristotle's Ethics: Moral Development & Human Nature

Aristotle's Ethics: Moral Development & Human Nature

Chapter 4: Aristotle’s Developmentalist Approach Modernized: Flourishing as Self-Concordance

beginning_of_positive_psychology
In this chapter, May begins to show how her Devlopmentalist interpretation of the Nicomachean Ethics can be used to build a modern view of flourishing and virtue that incorporates Aristotle’s fundamental insights about flourishing in a way that is consistent with the value of autonomy. To that end, May introduces the reader to Positive Psychology and Self-Determination Theory. She also shows how the notion of autonomy plays an important role in Aristotle’s ethical theory.


Chapter has 4 online resources listed in the Notes

Note 1: Butchers’ Union Co. v. Crescent City Co.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=111&invol=746

Note 13: Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29

Note 18: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow’s_hierarchy_of_needs

Note 35: William Butler Yeats’ poem The Second Coming
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html