The Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539784388
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nicomachean Ethics written by Aristotle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book NICOMACHEAN ETHICS written by Aristotle and published by 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: �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.�

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : St. Augustine's Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by St. Augustine's Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joachim Aufderheide
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107104408
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X written by Joachim Aufderheide and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new translation with commentary exploring the final book of Aristotle's Ethics in a philosophically rigorous yet interpretatively open way.

Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405153148
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics written by Richard Kraut and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ronald Polansky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521192765
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics written by Ronald Polansky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a systematic guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, a key text of ancient philosophy, and Western philosophy in general.

Author : Giulio Di Basilio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000601250
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics written by Giulio Di Basilio and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Giles Pearson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107023912
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle on Desire written by Giles Pearson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs Aristotle's account of desire from his various scattered remarks. It will be relevant to anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics or psychology.

Author : Ronna Burger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226080544
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates written by Ronna Burger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160384452X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals written by Immanuel Kant and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1993-06-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded edition of James Ellington’s preeminent translation includes Ellington’s new translation of Kant’s essay Of a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of disastrous consequences.