Lecture: On Translating Aristotle

The Dabis Lecture, 2014

 Professor Sir Anthony Kenny
 
ON TRANSLATING ARISTOTLE
 
Tuesday 11 February 2014 6.15pm
The Picture Gallery
Royal Holloway, University of London
 
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Aristotle's Greek word kalon can mean beautiful and also morally noble. Does that mean that for Aristotle ethics and aesthetics are the same thing? When we in English have many different words to translate one word of his, does that mean that we are sensitive to differences he ignored, or that we are insensitive to similarities that were important for him?

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