000002171 001__ 2171 000002171 005__ 20251007025128.0 000002171 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.6082/uchicago.2171 000002171 037__ $$aTHESIS$$bDissertation 000002171 041__ $$aeng 000002171 245__ $$aAristotle's Cosmological Ethics 000002171 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago 000002171 269__ $$a2020-03 000002171 300__ $$a211 000002171 336__ $$aDissertation 000002171 502__ $$bPh.D. 000002171 520__ $$aThis dissertation is aimed at resolving a central tension in Aristotle’s account of value and goodness. It shows how Aristotle can at once hold that goodness is a species-specific property but also that certain species are better than others – e.g. why he thinks that to be good means something different for fish and for humans but at the same time that humans are better than fish. First, despite widespread assumptions to the contrary, comparisons do not require a univocal value in terms of which entities are compared and that Aristotle does not make such an assumption. Second, as a final cause, Aristotle’s prime mover is a normative standard according to which entities can be compared in terms of how close they come to approximating it, even as they do so in very different ways. Finally, there are normative implications of Aristotle’s view: his commitment to natural hierarchy is non-instrumental and does not license an exploitation of non-human animals or the environment. 000002171 540__ $$a© 2020 Elena Comay del Junco 000002171 542__ $$fCC BY-NC-SA 000002171 650__ $$aPhilosophy 000002171 650__ $$aClassical studies 000002171 650__ $$aEthics 000002171 653__ $$aAristotle 000002171 653__ $$aCosmology 000002171 653__ $$aEnvironmental ethics 000002171 653__ $$aMetaphysics 000002171 653__ $$aTeleology 000002171 653__ $$aTheology 000002171 690__ $$aSocial Sciences Division 000002171 690__ $$aArts & Humanities Division 000002171 691__ $$aSocial Thought 000002171 691__ $$aPhilosophy 000002171 7001_ $$aComay del Junco, Elena$$uUniversity of Chicago 000002171 72012 $$aGabriel Richardson Lear 000002171 72012 $$aMartha C. Nussbaum 000002171 72014 $$aChristopher Shields 000002171 8564_ $$90f0f55ff-18e8-4281-8737-45a798be1edd$$eEmbargo (2022-03-27)$$s1523161$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2171/files/ComaydelJunco_uchicago_0330D_15084.pdf 000002171 909CO $$ooai:uchicago.tind.io:2171$$pDissertations$$pGLOBAL_SET 000002171 983__ $$aDissertation