Tom Angier
Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. Core research is in Aristotelian and Neo-Aristotelian ethical and political theory. I am working on a mode of ethical theory that correlates virtue with natural goods, thereby challenging the division between normative and applied ethics
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This technē-centric critique brings a wholly new, systematic and determinate focus to Anglophone interpretations of Aristotle’s moral philosophy. Although it is clearly critical in force, it amounts to a constructive critique, which – while demonstrating an underlying and under-recognised source of philosophical difficulty – is designed ultimately to uphold a renewed and strengthened Aristotelian ethics."
Papers by Tom Angier
theory. The first is that that theory is essentially secular or non-theistic.
The second is that Aristotle’s ethics assumes what Gregory Vlastos calls
the ‘eudaemonist axiom’. This holds that ‘happiness is desired by all
human beings as the ultimate end (telos) of all their rational acts’ (see
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher, p. 203). I argue that these two
dogmas are intimately related and both false. In arguing this, I reveal an
Aristotle much closer to the mediaeval than to the modern and
contemporary interpretative consensus.
This technē-centric critique brings a wholly new, systematic and determinate focus to Anglophone interpretations of Aristotle’s moral philosophy. Although it is clearly critical in force, it amounts to a constructive critique, which – while demonstrating an underlying and under-recognised source of philosophical difficulty – is designed ultimately to uphold a renewed and strengthened Aristotelian ethics."
theory. The first is that that theory is essentially secular or non-theistic.
The second is that Aristotle’s ethics assumes what Gregory Vlastos calls
the ‘eudaemonist axiom’. This holds that ‘happiness is desired by all
human beings as the ultimate end (telos) of all their rational acts’ (see
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher, p. 203). I argue that these two
dogmas are intimately related and both false. In arguing this, I reveal an
Aristotle much closer to the mediaeval than to the modern and
contemporary interpretative consensus.
With the rise of parties on the far-right and radical left of European party systems, social democratic parties now face a challenge to retain their support base in several European countries. Tom Angier writes that the primary problem facing social democrats is that they have shifted their appeal away from their core constituencies and the social organisations that previously entrenched their place in communities, such as unions and cooperatives. He argues that only be reengaging with their traditional priorities can social democrats hope to arrest this decline.