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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 : 43,8 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.

Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781624661198

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

An excellent new translation and commentary. It will serve newcomers as an informative, accessible introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics and to many issues in Aristotle’s philosophy, but also has much to offer advanced scholars. The commentary is noteworthy for its frequent citations of relevant passages from other works in Aristotle’s corpus, which often shed new light on the texts. Reeve’s translation is meticulous: it hits the virtuous mean--accurate and technical, yet readable--between translation’s vicious extremes of faithlessness and indigestibility.--Jessica Moss, New York University

The Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191607462

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The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up of activities in which we use the best human capacities, both ones that contribute to our flourishing as members of a community, and ones that allow us to engage in god-like contemplation. Contemporary ethical writings on the role and importance of the moral virtues such as courage and justice have drawn inspiration from this work, which also contains important discussions on responsibility for actions, on the nature of practical reasoning, and on friendship and its role in the best life. This new edition retains and lightly revises David Ross's justly admired translation. It also includes a valuable introduction to this seminal work, and notes designed to elucidate Aristotle's arguments. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:4057664189394

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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

This eBook edition of "Nicomachean Ethics" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Nicomachean Ethics is widely considered one of the most important philosophical works of Western Philosophy. 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. The Nicomachean Ethics had a crucial impact upon the European Middle Ages, becoming one of the core works of medieval philosophy. It therefore indirectly became critical in the development of all modern philosophy as well as European law and theology.

Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : St. Augustine's Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 Nicomachean Ethics Book X

Author : Joachim Aufderheide
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,8 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.

The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Ronald Polansky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 51,8 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.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Jon Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139500203

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Jon Miller Pdf

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most important ethical treatises ever written, and has had a profound influence on the subsequent development of ethics and moral psychology. This collection of essays, written by both senior and younger scholars in the field, presents a thorough and close examination of the work. The essays address a broad range of issues including the compositional integrity of the Ethics, the nature of desire, the value of emotions, happiness and the virtues. The result is a volume which will challenge and advance the scholarship on the Ethics, establishing new ways of viewing and appreciating the work for all scholars of Aristotle.

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,8 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.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Michael Pakaluk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521817420

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Michael Pakaluk Pdf

An engaging and accessible introduction to Aristotle's great masterpiece of moral philosophy.

The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Gerard J. Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415663854

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The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Gerard J. Hughes Pdf

The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics introduces the major themes in Aristotle's great book and acts as a companion for reading this key work.

Commentary on Aristotle, ›Nicomachean Ethics‹

Author : Georgios Pachymeres
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110643060

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Commentary on Aristotle, ›Nicomachean Ethics‹ by Georgios Pachymeres Pdf

The Greek commentary tradition devoted to explicating Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (NE) was extensive. It began in antiquity with Aspasius and reached a point of immense sophistication in the twelfth century with the commentaries of Eustratius of Nicaea and Michael of Ephesus, which primarily served educational purposes. The use of Aristotle’s ethics in the classroom continued into the late Byzantine period, but until recently scholastic use of the NE was known mostly through George Pachymeres’ epitome of the NE (Book 11 of his Philosophia). This volume radically changes the landscape by providing the editio princeps of the last surviving exegetical commentary on the NE stricto sensu, also penned by Pachymeres. This represents a new witness to the importance of Aristotelian studies in the cultural revival of late Byzantium. The editio princeps is accompanied by an English translation and a thorough introduction, which offers an informed reading of the commentary’s genre and layout, relationship to its sources, exegetical strategies, and philosophical originality. This book also includes the edition of diagrams and scholia accompanying Pachymeres’ exegesis, whose paratextual function is key to a full understanding of the work.

Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Giulio Di Basilio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 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.

Happy Lives and the Highest Good

Author : Gabriel Richardson Lear
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 140082608X

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Happy Lives and the Highest Good by Gabriel Richardson Lear Pdf

Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues--courage and generosity, for example--that are not in any obvious way either manifestations of philosophical contemplation or subordinated to it. They argue that Aristotle was inconsistent, and that we should not try to read the entire Ethics as an attempt to flesh out the notion that the best life aims at the "monistic good" of contemplation. In defending the unity and coherence of the Ethics, Lear argues that, in Aristotle's view, we may act for the sake of an end not just by instrumentally bringing it about but also by approximating it. She then argues that, for Aristotle, the excellent rational activity of moral virtue is an approximation of theoretical contemplation. Thus, the happiest person chooses moral virtue as an approximation of contemplation in practical life. Richardson Lear bolsters this interpretation by examining three moral virtues--courage, temperance, and greatness of soul--and the way they are fine. Elegantly written and rigorously argued, this is a major contribution to our understanding of a central issue in Aristotle's moral philosophy.