The general and the specific: Aristotle's moral reasoning by Lawrence Auster
As a corrective to the abstract and unreal moral casuistry employed by the contributors at the What's Wrong with the World website to determine what is the moral use of force (see this, this, and this), below are excerpts from Eric Voegelin's essay, "What is Right by Nature." Drawing on Aristotle's Nichomachian Ethics and Politics as filtered through Voegelin's "experiential" approach to philosophy, the essay helps provide philosophical support for the commonsense, intuitive idea that we cannot understand what is right for political leaders to do regarding the use of force in any situation without knowledge of the concrete circumstances those leaders are confronting.
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