PHILOSOPHY Aristotle and the virtues as products of reason*

For over four hundred years now, Aristotle has received bad press. This is despite the fact that Aristotelian philosophy has been a prominent part of Western history right from the time of Aristotle himself. Scholastic philosophy (based on Aristotle, via Aquinas and others) was deemed by The Oxford History of Western Philosophy (OUP, 2000) as constituting one of the four main modern strands or schools of philosophy even as late as the 1950s, the other three being Marxism, existentialism and empi…

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