Abstract
Ronna Burger's Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates argues that the Nicomachean Ethics is a unified whole. Her reading runs against the tide of most contemporary scholarship. In particular, Book X.7-8, Aristotle's valorization and near apotheosis of the contemplative life, has been taken to be a Platonic intrusion in a work otherwise characterized by a resolute anthropocentrism, as Nussbaum puts it. To account for such an apparent fracture commentators have attributed both chronological development and later editorship to the corpus. Burger, by contrast, offers a Talmudic reading. She treats the Nicomachean Ethics as a work of integrity that dialectically culminates in, rather than is interrupted by, X.7-8. This essay situates her argument in a larger context that explores the nature of philosophical reading as such.
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