ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses Abraham Edel’s proposal that the he uses network analysis as a method for ethical theory. The notion of a network appears relatively late in Edel’s work. He uses it in two places: in his article “Toward an Analytic Method for Dealing with Moral Change,” where he proposed “network analysis” as an analytic method for ethical theory; and, in his Aristotle, where he employs the notion of a “network of concepts” to explicate the sense in which Aristotle’s work has a unity. Edel’s concern in ethics is with basic value terms like freedom, equality, fraternity rights, democracy and so on, which are less likely to possess invariant core meanings.
