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      La posibilidad de una ciencia práctica en Ética Nicomaquea Z Translated title: The Possibility of a Practical Science in the Nicomachean Ethics Z

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          Resumen: En este trabajo defiendo que, a pesar de la dificultad que implica distinguir la ciencia práctica y la prudencia (φϱόνησις), en el libro Z de la Ética Nicomaquea Aristóteles sostiene algunas tesis que permiten confirmar el estatuto científico de la política y, así, éstas permiten diferenciarla de la prudencia: el estagirita no solamente concibió un campo de estudio propio de la ciencia práctica, también afirmó la presencia de principios universales de la acción, los cuales son susceptibles de investigación científica debido a que implican un grado de necesidad científica. El estatuto científico de la política se refuerza, además, con el uso de la analogía entre la ciencia práctica y la ciencia médica, a la cual Aristóteles recurre con frecuencia. Finalmente, argumento que, desde el punto de vista metodológico, el libro Z es un tratado acerca del principio práctico por excelencia que es la prudencia o φϱόνησις.

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          Abstract: In this article I discuss that, in spite of the difficulty involved in distinguishing practical science from practical wisdom (φϱόνησις), in the Nicomachean Ethics, book Z, Aristotle holds some theses that allow the confirmation of the scientific status of politics and, thus, allow its differentiation from practical wisdom: the Stagirite conceives not only a proper field of study about the practical science, yet he declares the presence of universal principles of action, principles which are susceptible of scientific research since they involve a certain degree of scientific necessity. Moreover, the scientific status of politics is being strengthened by the use of the analogy between practical science and medical science, which Aristotle recurrently uses. Finally, I argue that from a methodological point of view, book Z is a treatise about the practical principle par excellence, practical wisdom or φϱόνησις.

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              Aristotle's Use of Medicine as Model of Method in his Ethics

              Philosophy, in general, moves in a sphere of abstraction, and its statements claim to be necessary and of universal validity. The reader therefore expects them to appeal directly to his reason, and he does not normally reflect much on the time and historical conditions that determined what the philosopher took for granted. It is only in this age of historical consciousness that we have come to appreciate these factors more readily, and the great thinkers of the past appear to us more or less closely related to the culture of their age. The writings of Plato and Aristotle in particular are for us an inexhaustible source of information about Greek society and civilisation. This is true also in regard to the relation of Greek philosophy to the science of its time, and this is of special importance for our understanding. That relation can be traced throughout Aristotle's logical, physical, and metaphysical works; but the influence of other sciences and arts is no less evident in his ethics. In this paper I propose to examine the numerous references to medicine that occur in the Nicomachean Ethics . They are mostly concerned with the question of the best method of treating this subject. The problem of the right method is always of the utmost importance for Aristotle. The discussion of it begins on the first page of the Ethics , where he tries to give a definition of the subject of this course of lectures and attributes it to a philosophical discipline that he calls ‘politics’. He does so in agreement with the Platonic tradition. We can trace it back to one of the dialogues of Plato's first period, the Gorgias , in which the Platonic Socrates for the first time pronounces his postulate of a new kind of philosophy, the object of which ought to be the care of the human soul ( φυχῆς θεραπεία ). He assigns this supreme task to ‘political art’, even though it does not fulfil this function at present.
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                Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas (México, DF, Mexico )
                0185-3058
                2015
                : 33
                : 2
                : 81-109
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                [1] orgnameUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico elizabethmaresmanrique@ 123456gmail.com
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                S0185-30582015000400081
                10.19130/iifl.nt.2015.33.2.735
                88d1e161-ba14-4577-8aea-f2916c40b5ad

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                : 30 November 2015
                : 17 September 2015
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                φϱόνησις,Practical Science,Ethical Methodology,Aristotle,ciencia práctica,metodología ética,Aristóteles

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