Aristotle and Maimonides on Virtue and Natural Law Jonathan Jacobs

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A: Tis essay examines connections between two related clusters o issues. Terst set concerns undamental matters o moral psychology and moral epistemology astreated by Aristotle and Maimonides. It explicates crucial diferences in their conceptionso sel-determination, virtue, the plasticity o character, and moral knowledge. Te sec-ond cluster o issues concerns natural law. Are there grounds or regarding Maimonidesunderstanding o Judaism as involving elements o natural law? How are we to under-stand the relationship between natural law and reasons or the commandments? Whatwould be the merits o Judaism having a natural law dimension, and how should thatdimension be characterized? I suggest respects in which Maimonidean moral thought(and Jewish moral thought more generally) indicates an approach to underwriting theobjective validity and universal applicability o moral thought without involving naturallaw elements. Tis connects the question o natural law with issues o moral psychologyand epistemology in the earlier portions o the essay.

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