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The Nicomachean Ethics » (2nd Edition)

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Authors: Aristotle, Terence (Translator) Irwin, Terence Irwin, Terence Irwin
ISBN-13: 9780872204645, ISBN-10: 0872204642
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Date Published: January 2000
Edition: 2nd Edition

Author Biography: Aristotle

Aristotle (384—322 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.

Book Synopsis

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