The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Richard Kraut

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1405153148

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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.

A Guided Tour of Selections from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
A Guided Tour of Selections from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Aristotle

Publisher: Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Publishing Company

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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This guided tour actively engages students with Aristotle's work through a variety of tasks that help them develop their critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. The text provides complete discussion of books 1-4 and 10 and offers summaries and excerpts of Books 2, 3, and 5 through 9.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Jon Miller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-08-18

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521514484

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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 newly-commissioned 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.

Introduction to Aristotle
Introduction to Aristotle

Author: Aristotle

Publisher:

Published: 1947

Total Pages: 667

ISBN-13: 9780394309736

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This Introduction to Aristotle is a presentation in which Aristotle is permitted to speak for himself in the context of a sketched scheme of the relation of what he says in one treatise to what he says elsewhere. The seven introductions which precede these seven works place them in their contexts by describing their relations to other works or parts of works, their place in the scheme of the Aristotelian sciences, and the fashion in which the subjects treated in the sciences they expound may be considered in the approaches proper to other sciences in the system. - Preface.

Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics'
Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics'

Author: Christopher Warne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2006-10-10

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1441113509

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, based on lectures that he gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, is one of the most significant works of moral philosophy ever written. Aristotle, though of course influenced by the works of Plato, diverges sharply from his predecessor by making the practice, rather than the possession, of virtue the key to human happiness. By converting ethics from a theoretical to a practical science, and by introducing psychology into his study of behaviour, Aristotle both widened the field of moral philosophy and simultaneously made it more accessible to anyone who seeks an understanding of human nature. The theory of 'Virtue Ethics' Aristotle put forward still continues to be a major position of ethical thought to this day, his influence being strongly present in the work of Elizabeth Anscombe, Phillipa Foot and Alisdair McIntyre.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Michael Pakaluk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-08-25

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780521817424

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

Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics
Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Tobias Hoffmann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1107276403

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of morality and the nature of pleasure. They examine Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics and his theological writings, above all the Summa theologiae. Their essays show Aquinas to be a highly perceptive interpreter, but one who also brings certain presuppositions to the Ethics and alters key Aristotelian notions for his own purposes. The result is a rich and nuanced picture of Aquinas's relation to Aristotle that will be of interest to readers in moral philosophy, Aquinas studies, the history of theology and the history of philosophy.