Against Nagel - In Favour of a Compound Human Ergon

Dialogue 38 (2-3):77-82 (1996)
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Thomas Nagel argues that Aristotle identifies rationality as the ergon idion of the human being. Against Nagel, I defend a reading of Aristotle which depicts a complex human ergon. This complex identity involves desire. It is in Book X of the Nichomachean Ethics that my understanding of Aristotle's position is clinched.

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Juliette Christie, née Cordero
University of California, Santa Barbara (PhD)

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