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| Title | : | The Nicomachean Ethics |
| Author | : | Aristotle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 329 pages |
| Published | : | January 29th 2004 by Penguin Classics (first published -340) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Classics. Nonfiction. Politics |
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‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul in accordance with virtue’, for example with moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. Aristotle’s work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters.
J. A. K. Thomson’s translation has been revised by Hugh Tredennick, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Jonathan Barnes. This edition also includes an updated list for further reading and a new chronology of Aristotle’s life and works.
Previously published as Ethics
Present Books Supposing The Nicomachean Ethics
| Original Title: | Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια |
| ISBN: | 0140449493 (ISBN13: 9780140449495) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 32422 Users | 922 ReviewsAppraise Of Books The Nicomachean Ethics
When I was young I had an idée fixe - an obsession.Oh, its easy to be like that if you were brought up in 1950s Mainstream Christianity, or later, if - like Cherilyns Dad in the amazing new Chasing Eden - you were influenced at some point or another, by a fundamentalist splinter group. Then you might have had the idée fixe of a retributive God - a PUNISHING God.And when my life went into a tailspin it was ALL BECAUSE OF THIS IDEA.Now, I just had to escape all that. So, in 1985, sought relief inSuch an impressive book that it's honestly hard to do it justice. The philosophical distinctions that Aristotle introduces here -- the three types of friendship, hexis as the key to understanding moral action, the vice/virtue distinction, the spoudaios, etc. etc. -- are impressive enough on their own that any one of them could be the basis of an entire philosophical school in any century. But when you realize that Aristotle was literally the first writer in the Greek tradition to deeply consider
The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle 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).
"One lesson of our age is that barbarism persists under the surface, and that the virtues of civilized life are less deeply rooted than used to be supposed. The world is not too richly endowed with examples of perseverance and subtlety in analysis, of moderation and sanity in the study of human affairs. It will be a great loss if the thinker who, above all others, displays these qualities, is ever totally forgotten." D.J. Allan, author of The Philosophy of Aristotle, (Oxford 1952) about
Aristotle vs. PlatoHaving just finished and enjoyed Plato's complete works, I find this book a bit annoying and uninspiring in comparison. Aristotle seems to take every opportunity to "correct" Plato, when in fact he is only attacking a strawman. His arguments, sometimes self-contradictory, often support and clarify Plato's ideas, albeit using his own terminology.Aristotle seems to have great difficulty appreciating or understanding Platos abstractions (from species to genus, from the individual
It is rare that a philosophical book about ethics can be so investigation-based and have so much common sense in it.
Aristotles ethics spans three works: Ethica Nicomachea, Ethica Eudemia and Politica. The first two are works that are focused solely on ethics, and share three exactly similar books. Also, the subject is quite similar, although there are differences in the way Aristotle deals with these subjects. Nevertheless, the common opinion among scholars seems to be that to understand Aristotles ethics is to read Ethica Nicomachea. The Politica is quite another subject: at the end of the mentioned Ethica,
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