Liberty & Nature (Rasmussen - paperback)

Author: Douglas Rasmussen, Douglas Den Uyl

File under: Rasmussen

ISBN: 9780812691207

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

Aristotle's way of thinking has normally been understood as hostile to any liberal, pluralistic, or commercial society. In Liberty and Nature, Rasmussen and Den Uyl set out to show that the Aristotelian approach to ethics supports the natural rights which form the most secure basis for liberal principles. The authors lay the foundations for their thesis by rebutting the most prominent arguments against the Aristotelian approach; they then offer a new interpretation for Aristotelian ethics as a natural-end ethics in which human flourishing is the ultimate moral standard.