A dynamic ontology in the Nicomachean Ethics?

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a new reading of the Nicomachean Ethics. Many texts are signaled, specially those where Aristotle seems to attach his Ontology with his Practical Philosophy. Here, in contrast to his position in Metaphysics and in his Physics, he seems to accept the being in process as his explanation of the human praxis. To be and to act are founded in only one ontological explanation. From these interpretation it seems possible to think on the ethics as grounded on the ontological principles that explain the reality as a process. Through concepts as eudaimonia, fronesis, koinonia and phylia is stated that the Practical Philosophy of Aristotle can be seen as founded in a dynamic perspective, to the contrary of his static concepts of ousia, or essence.