Abstract:

The concept of entrepreneurship is mainly evaluated on the axis that covers commercial enterprises with economic purposes, and is discussed with a profitability-oriented perspective that describes the transformation of economic opportunities into new values. However, social entrepreneurship practices that can change the destiny of a geography and society are needed now more than ever before. From education to nature, from health to human rights, the steps to be taken by social entrepreneurs will lead to further studies that can be promising for social transformation. The main purpose of this study is to discuss the concept of social entrepreneurship within the framework of Aristotle’s understanding of ethics. In this study, based on literature review, I aim to address social entrepreneurship with Aristotle’s point of view and to discuss it with current social entrepreneurship examples. As in Aristotle’s view of the concept of action-oriented happiness, then, ‘what should we do to make our living activities virtuous and suitable for virtue?’ Because, according to Aristotle, virtuous actions create human life; action is the most important building block for one’s existence; one who is in a state of inaction is not considered to have lived a virtuous life, even if he/she is virtuous as an individual. In this study, I aim to evaluate social entrepreneurship, where courage, knowledge, research and action cluster, through Aristotle’s discourse on the subject, and to discuss it by including current examples of social entrepreneurship.

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