Ann Ward's research while affiliated with University of Regina and other places

Publications (6)

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Aristotle’s discussion of political friendship points to perfect friendship and the possibility that the good citizen can be the good person. This conclusion is arrived at by reflection on three problems raised in Aristotle’s analysis. First, citizen friendships of utility are the cause of civil strife. Second, there is a tension between citizen fr...
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This article explores the virtues of generosity and magnificence in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Generosity involves private individuals giving moderately; magnificence is spending by individuals on a grand scale for public purposes. Inequality, it is argued, grounds and motivates these virtues. For Aristotle, generosity and magnificence are pro...
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41)2 It focuses moneymakers on the pleasures of the body rather than the soul and causes an isolated individualism to emerge that divides citizens (Pol. 1257b40-1258a6; 1258b1- 2). This critique in the Politics, however, is not exhaustive of Aristotle's views on money. Rather, I argue that in book 5 of the Nicomachean Ethics, an analysis of Aristot...
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This paper explores the ways in which ancient poetry and philosophy address the question of whether human reason can ground the good human life by considering the similarities and differences between Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Plato’s Apology of Socrates. Sophocles’ tragedy and Plato’s dialogue are compared because both dramatize a process of...

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... These streams of research on organizational justice are considered important factors in the study of ethical aspects, such as an ethical climate. This is the study of equity that began with Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics in ancient Greece and is related to the normative approach as a semantic point of morality and righteousness [22]. Equity, from this classical perspective, refers to equal distribution. ...