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NICOMACHEAN ETHICS

Author : Aristotle
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Page : 148 pages
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Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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�EVERY art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. But a certain difference is found among ends; some are activities, others are products apart from the activities that produce them. Where there are ends apart from the actions, it is the nature of the products to be better than the activities. Now, as there are many actions, arts, and sciences, their ends also are many; the end of the medical art is health, that of shipbuilding a vessel, that of strategy victory, that of economics wealth. But where such arts fall under a single capacity- as bridle-making and the other arts concerned with the equipment of horses fall under the art of riding, and this and every military action under strategy, in the same way other arts fall under yet others- in all of these the ends of the master arts are to be preferred to all the subordinate ends; for it is for the sake of the former that the latter are pursued. It makes no difference whether the activities themselves are the ends of the actions, or something else apart from the activities, as in the case of the sciences just mentioned.�

Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153978438X

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author's whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. The title is often assumed to refer to his son Nicomachus, to whom the work was dedicated or who may have edited it (although his young age makes this less likely). Alternatively, the work may have been dedicated to his father, who was also called Nicomachus. The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, of how men should best live. In his Metaphysics, Aristotle described how Socrates, the friend and teacher of Plato, had turned philosophy to human questions, whereas Pre-Socratic philosophy had only been theoretical. Ethics, as now separated out for discussion by Aristotle, is practical rather than theoretical, in the original Aristotelian senses of these terms. In other words, it is not only a contemplation about good living, because it also aims to create good living. It is therefore connected to Aristotle's other practical work, the Politics, which similarly aims at people becoming good. Ethics is about how individuals should best live, while the study of politics is from the perspective of a law-giver, looking at the good of a whole community.

The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics

Author : Paula Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521761765

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The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics by Paula Gottlieb Pdf

This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.

Aristotle's Ethics

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691158464

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Aristotle's Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well-being or a life well lived, and rationally motivated action as a mean between extremes. Its influence was felt well beyond antiquity into the Middle Ages, particularly through the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. In the past century, with the rise of virtue theory in moral philosophy, Aristotle’s ethics has been revived as a source of insight and interest. While most attention has traditionally focused on Aristotle’s famous Nicomachean Ethics, there are several other works written by or attributed to Aristotle that illuminate his ethics: the Eudemian Ethics, the Magna Moralia, and Virtues and Vices. This book brings together all four of these important texts, in thoroughly revised versions of the translations found in the authoritative complete works universally recognized as the standard English edition. Edited and introduced by two of the world’s leading scholars of ancient philosophy, this is an essential volume for anyone interested in the ethical thought of one of the most important philosophers in the Western tradition.

Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : St. Augustine's Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015051885542

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Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Pdf

The fine editions of the Aristotelian Commentary Series make available long out-of-print commentaries of St. Thomas on Aristotle. Each volume has the full text of Aristotle with Bekker numbers, followed by the commentary of St. Thomas, cross-referenced using an easily accessible mode of referring to Aristotle in the Commentary. Each volume is beautifully printed and bound using the finest materials. All copies are printed on acid-free paper and Smyth sewn. They will last.

Aristotle's Ethics

Author : Hope May
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826491107

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Aristotle's Ethics by Hope May Pdf

Examines Aristotle's views on ethics and human nature, an issue central to the thought of this hugely important and influential philosopher.

The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics

Author : Jon Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139851114

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The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics by Jon Miller Pdf

Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Each essay focuses on a single philosopher, school of philosophers, or philosophical era. The accounts examine and compare Aristotle's views and those of his heirs and also offer a reception history of the ethics, dealing with matters such as the availability and circulation of Aristotle's texts during the periods in question. The resulting volume will be a valuable source of information and arguments for anyone working in the history of ethics.

Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics

Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438462684

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Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics by Ann Ward Pdf

Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectural virtue with morality. In this book, Ann Ward explores Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the progressive structure of the argument. Aristotle begins by giving an account of moral virtue from the perspective of the moral agent, only to find that the account itself highlights fundamental tensions within the virtues that push the moral agent into the realm of intellectual virtue. However, the existence of an intellectual realm separate from the moral realm can lead to lack of self-restraint. Aristotle, Ward argues, locates political philosophy and the experience of friendship as possible solutions to the problem of lack of self-restraint, since political philosophy thinks about the human things in a universal way, and friendship grounds the pursuit of the good which is happiness understood as contemplation. Ward concludes that Aristotle’s philosophy of friendship points to the embodied intellect of timocratic friends and mothers in their activity of mothering as engaging in the highest form of contemplation and thus living the happiest life. Ann Ward is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Politics and International Studies at Campion College at the University of Regina, Canada. She is the author and editor of several books, including Herodotus and the Philosophy of Empire and Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue.

Reading Aristotle's Ethics

Author : Aristide Tessitore
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791430472

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Reading Aristotle's Ethics by Aristide Tessitore Pdf

Presents the Nicomachean Ethics as a work of political philosophy, emphasizing the interplay between its practical political concerns and its underlying philosophic perspective and arguing that it is rhetorical in the precise Aristotelian meaning of the term.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X

Author : Joachim Aufderheide
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107104402

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X by Joachim Aufderheide Pdf

Presents a new translation with commentary exploring the final book of Aristotle's Ethics in a philosophically rigorous yet interpretatively open way.

Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics

Author : Eve Rabinoff
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810136441

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Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics by Eve Rabinoff Pdf

Perception in Aristotle's Ethics seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle’s accounts of perception and ethics in De anima and Nicomachean Ethics, Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of perception (aisthesis), which is often thought to be an entirely physical phenomenon, is informed by intellect and has an ethical dimension insofar as it involves the perception of particulars in their ethical significance, as things that are good or bad in themselves and as occasions to act. Further, she contends, virtuous action requires this ethical perception, according to Aristotle, and ethical development consists in the achievement of the harmony of the intellectual and perceptual, rational and nonrational, parts of the soul. Rabinoff's project is philosophically motivated both by the details of Aristotle’s thought and more generally by an increasing philosophical awareness that the ethical agent is an embodied, situated individual, rather than primarily a disembodied, abstract rational will.

Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Giulio Di Basilio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000601251

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Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics by Giulio Di Basilio Pdf

Specifically focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from Aristotle’s ethics. This volume builds on a recent revival of interest in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, which offers an invaluable complement to the Nicomachean Ethics in the study of the development of Aristotle's ethical ideas. It brings together a series of new studies by leading scholars covering the main points of inquiry raised by the relationship between the two works, exploring their continuities and divergences. At the same time, it showcases a variety of approaches to and perspectives on the main questions posed by Aristotle’s ethical thought. Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics is offered as a contribution to long-standing debates over Aristotle's ethical thinking, as well as an inspiration for new approaches, which take both of his surviving ethical treatises seriously. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient philosophy and ethics, particularly Aristotle’s two ethics.

Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates

Author : Ronna Burger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226080543

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Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates by Ronna Burger Pdf

What is the good life for a human being? Aristotle’s exploration of this question in the Nicomachean Ethics has established it as a founding work of Western philosophy, though its teachings have long puzzled readers and provoked spirited discussion. Adopting a radically new point of view, Ronna Burger deciphers some of the most perplexing conundrums of this influential treatise by approaching it as Aristotle’s dialogue with the Platonic Socrates. Tracing the argument of the Ethics as it emerges through that approach, Burger’s careful reading shows how Aristotle represents ethical virtue from the perspective of those devoted to it while standing back to examine its assumptions and implications. “This is the best book I have read on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. It is so well crafted that reading it is like reading the Ethics itself, in that it provides an education in ethical matters that does justice to all sides of the issues.”—Mary P. Nichols, Baylor University

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405153140

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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Richard Kraut Pdf

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethicsilluminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics andstudents new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays bydistinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors the organization of theNichomachean Ethics itself. Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, thedistinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness,self-control, and pleasure.

The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Ronald Polansky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521192767

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The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Ronald Polansky Pdf

This volume provides a systematic guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, a key text of ancient philosophy, and Western philosophy in general.