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Enthusiasmos And Moral Monsters In Eudemian Ethics Viii.2, Julie Ponesse
Enthusiasmos And Moral Monsters In Eudemian Ethics Viii.2, Julie Ponesse
Julie E Ponesse
This paper explores a much overlooked passage buried at the end of the Eudemian Ethics in which Aristotle attributes the success of those he calls ‘fortunate'--eutuchēs-- to nature, a conclusion he would seem not to be entitled to draw. Against the standard view, I argue that we can understand how Aristotle could have quite seriously (and consistently) drawn this conclusion if we distinguish between the proximate cause of the fortunate man’s eutuchia, which is his nature (in particular, his own irrational soul impulses), and its ultimate cause, which is tuchē (because his soul, which contains those impulses, is generated by …
Infertility And Moral Luck: The Politics Of Women Blaming Themselves For Infertility, Julie E. Ponesse
Infertility And Moral Luck: The Politics Of Women Blaming Themselves For Infertility, Julie E. Ponesse
Julie E Ponesse
Infertility can be an agonizing experience, especially for women. And, much of the agony has to do with luck: with how unlucky one is in being infertile, and in how much luck is involved in determining whether one can weather the storm of infertility and perhaps have a child in the end. We argue that bad luck associated with being infertile is often bad moral luck for women. The infertile woman often blames herself or is blamed by others for what is happening to her, even when she cannot control or prevent what is happening to her. She has simply …