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Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle by Martin Ostwald

Authors: Martin Ostwald, Aristotle, Martin Ostwald
ISBN-13: 9780023895302, ISBN-10: 0023895306
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: January 1962
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Martin Ostwald

Book Synopsis

Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of the Irwin Nicomachean Ethics features a revised translation (without extensive editorial intervention), expanded notes (including a summary of the argument of each chapter), an expanded Introduction, and a revised glossary.

	Preface	ix
	Abbreviations and Conventions	xi
	Introduction	xiii
	Nicomachean Ethics	1
Book I	[Happiness]	1
1.	[Ends and Goods]	1
2.	[The Highest Good and Political Science]	1
3.	[The Method of Political Science]	2
4.	[Common Beliefs]	3
5.	[The Three Lives]	4
6.	[The Platonic Form of the Good]	5
7.	[An Account of the Human Good]	7
8.	[Defense of the Account of the Good]	10
9.	[How Is Happiness Achieved?]	12
10.	[Can We Be Happy during Our Lifetime?]	13
11.	[How Happiness Can Be Affected after One's Death]	15
12.	[Praise and Honor]	15
13.	[Introduction to the Virtues]	16
Book II	[Virtue of Character]	18
1.	[How a Virtue of Character Is Acquired]	18
2.	[Habituation]	19
3.	[The Importance of Pleasure and Pain]	20
4.	[Virtuous Actions versus Virtuous Character]	22
5.	[Virtue of Character: Its Genus]	23
6.	[Virtue of Character: Its Differentia]	23
7.	[The Particular Virtues of Character]	25
8.	[Relations between Mean and Extreme States]	27
9.	[How Can We Reach the Mean?]	29
Book III	[Preconditions of Virtue]	30
1.	[Voluntary Action]	30
2.	[Decision]	33
3.	[Deliberation]	34
4.	[Wish]	36
5.	[Virtue and Vice Are in Our Power]	37
	[The Individual Virtues of Character]	40
6.	[Bravery; Its Scope]	40
7.	[Bravery; Its Characteristic Outlook]	41
8.	[Conditions That Resemble Bravery]	42
9.	[Feelings Proper to Bravery]	44
10.	[Temperance; Its Scope]	45
11.	[Temperance; Its Outlook]	47
12.	[Intemperance]	48
Book IV49
1.	[Generosity]	49
2.	[Magnificence]	53
3.	[Magnanimity]	56
4.	[The Virtue Concerned with Small Honors]	60
5.	[Mildness]	61
6.	[Friendliness]	62
7.	[Truthfulness]	63
8.	[Wit]	65
9.	[Shame]	66
Book V	[Justice]	67
1.	[Varieties of Justice]	67
2.	[Special Justice Contrasted with General]	69
3.	[Justice in Distribution]	71
4.	[Justice in Rectification]	72
5.	[Justice in Exchange]	74
6.	[Political Justice]	77
7.	[Justice by Nature and by Law]	78
8.	[Justice, Injustice, and the Voluntary]	79
9.	[Puzzles about Justice and Injustice]	80
10.	[Decency]	83
11.	[Injustice to Oneself]	84
Book VI	[Virtues of Thought]	86
1.	[The Mean and the Virtues of Thought]	86
2.	[Thought, Desire, and Decision]	87
3.	[Scientific Knowledge]	87
4.	[Craft Knowledge]	88
5.	[Prudence]	89
6.	[Understanding]	90
7.	[Wisdom versus Prudence]	90
8.	[Types of Prudence]	92
9.	[Good Deliberation]	93
10.	[Comprehension]	95
11.	[Practical Thought and Particulars]	95
12.	[Puzzles about Prudence and Wisdom]	96
13.	[Prudence and Virtue of Character]	98
Book VII	[Incontinence]	99
1.	[Virtue, Vice, and Incontinence]	99
2.	[Puzzles about Incontinence]	100
3.	[Incontinence and Ignorance]	102
4.	[Simple Incontinence]	104
5.	[Bestiality and Disease]	106
6.	[Incontinence and Related Conditions]	107
7.	[Incontinence, Intemperance, and Softness]	109
8.	[Why Intemperance Is Worse than Incontinence]	110
9.	[Continence]	111
10.	[Answers to Further Questions about Incontinence]	113
	[Pleasure]	114
11.	[Questions about Pleasure]	114
12.	[Pleasure and Good]	115
13.	[Pleasure and Happiness]	116
14.	[Bodily Pleasures]	117
Book VIII	[Friendship]	119
1.	[Common Beliefs and Questions]	119
2.	[The Object of Friendship]	120
3.	[The Three Types of Friendship]	121
4.	[Comparison between the Types of Friendship]	123
5.	[State and Activity in Friendship]	124
6.	[Activities Characteristic of the Different Types of Friendship]	125
7.	[Friendship between Unequals]	127
8.	[Giving and Receiving in Friendship]	128
9.	[Friendship in Communities]	129
10.	[Political Systems]	130
11.	[Friendships in Political Systems]	131
12.	[Friendships in Families]	132
13.	[Disputes in Friendships between Equals]	134
14.	[Disputes in Friendships between Unequals]	136
Book IX137
1.	[Friends with Dissimilar Aims]	137
2.	[Conflicts between Different Types of Friendships]	139
3.	[Dissolution of Friendships]	140
4.	[Self-love and Friendship]	141
5.	[Goodwill and Friendship]	143
6.	[Friendship and Concord]	144
7.	[Active Benevolence and Friendship]	145
8.	[Self-love and Selfishness]	146
9.	[Why Are Friends Needed?]	148
10.	[How Many Friends Are Needed?]	150
11.	[Friends in Good and Ill Fortune]	151
12.	[Shared Activity in Friendship]	152
Book X	[Pleasure]	153
1.	[The Right Approach to Pleasure]	153
2.	[Arguments about Pleasure]	154
3.	[Pleasure Is a Good, but Not the Good]	155
4.	[Pleasure Is an Activity]	157
5.	[Pleasures Differ in Kind]	159
	[Happiness: Further Discussion]	162
6.	[Conditions for Happiness]	162
7.	[Happiness and Theoretical Study]	163
8.	[Theoretical Study and the Other Virtues]	165
	[From Ethics to Politics]	167
9.	[Moral Education]	167
	Notes	172
	Glossary	315
	Further Reading	355