Authors: Aristotle, Sarah Broadie
ISBN-13: 9780198752714, ISBN-10: 0198752717
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Aristotle (384322 b.c.) studied under Plato at the Academy and later established his school, the Lyceum, which attracted a large number of scholars.
Jonathan Barnes is professor of ancient philosophy at the University of Geneva. He translated and edited the Penguin Classics edition of Early Greek Philosophy.
J. A. K. Thomson was professor emeritus of classics at King's College, London, until his death in 1959.
Hugh Tredennick was professor of classics at Royal Holloway College and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at London University.
Enduringly profound treatise, whose lasting effect on Western philosophy continues to resonate. Aristotle identifies the goal of life as happiness and discusses its attainment through the contemplation of philosophic truth.
Preface | ||
Chronology | ||
Introduction | ||
Further reading | ||
A note on the text | ||
Synopsis | ||
Bk. I | The object of life | 3 |
Bk. II | Moral goodness | 31 |
Bk. III | Moral responsibility : two virtues | 50 |
Bk. IV | Other moral virtues | 82 |
Bk. V | Justice | 112 |
Bk. VI | Intellectual virtues | 144 |
Bk. VII | Continence and incontinence : the nature of pleasure | 167 |
Bk. VIII | The kinds of friendship | 200 |
Bk. IX | The grounds of friendship | 228 |
Bk. X | Pleasure and the life of happiness | 254 |
App. 1 | Table of virtues and vices | 285 |
App. 2 | Pythagoreanism | 287 |
App. 3 | The sophists and Socrates | 289 |
App. 4 | Plato's theory of forms | 292 |
App. 5 | The categories | 295 |
App. 6 | Substance and change | 296 |
App. 7 | Nature and theology | 300 |
App. 8 | The practical syllogism | 302 |
App. 9 | Pleasure and process | 303 |
App. 10 | Liturgies | 305 |
App. 11 | Aristotle in the middle ages | 306 |
Glossary of Greek words | 310 | |
Index of names | 313 | |
Subject index | 316 |