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SUMMARY:2026 McCracken Lecture in Philosophy – Mitzi Lee
DESCRIPTION:\nJustice as a Natural Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics\n\n\n\nAristotle thinks that justice is, like all the other virtues, a natural virtue. What does this mean? How does he accommodate its connection to and dependence upon convention, agreements, and laws—the sorts of facts that would seem to make it an “artificial” virtue, in Hume’s words?\n\n\n\nMitzi Lee is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her PhD from Harvard in 1996, and is the author of Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus (Oxford 2005).\n\n\n\nJoin in person or via Zoom.\n\n\n\nZOOM: https://msu.zoom.us/j/97703660867 Passcode: SKH530\n
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<p>Justice as a Natural Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics</p>



<p>Aristotle thinks that justice is, like all the other virtues, a natural virtue. What does this mean? How does he accommodate its connection to and dependence upon convention, agreements, and laws—the sorts of facts that would seem to make it an “artificial” virtue, in Hume’s words?</p>



<p>Mitzi Lee is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her PhD from Harvard in 1996, and is the author of Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus (Oxford 2005).</p>



<p>Join in person or via Zoom.</p>



<p>ZOOM: <a href="https://msu.zoom.us/j/97703660867">https://msu.zoom.us/j/97703660867</a> Passcode: SKH530</p>

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