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Author Aristotle

Title The Eudemian ethics of Aristotle / translated with explanatory comments by Peter L.P. Simpson
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 411 pages)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Analytical Outline -- Translation of the Eudemian Ethics -- Book One -- Book Two -- Book Three -- Book Four -- Book Five -- Book Six -- Book Seven -- Book Eight -- Translation of On Virtues and Vices -- Commentary on the Eudemian Ethics -- Book One -- Book Two -- Book Three -- The Common Books in General -- Book Four -- Book Five -- Book Six -- Book Seven -- Book Eight -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary A major treatise on moral philosophy by Aristotle, this is the first time the Eudemian Ethics has been published in its entirety in any modern language. Equally important, the volume has been translated by Sir Anthony Kenny, one of Britain's most distinguished academics and philosophers, and a leading authority on Aristotle. In The Eudemian Ethics, Aristotle explores the factors that make life worth living. He considers the role of happiness, and what happiness consists of, and he analyzes various aspects that contribute to it: human agency, the relation between action and virtue, and the concept of virtue itself. Aristotle classifies and examines the various moral and intellectual virtues, and he considers the roles of friendship and pleasure in a life well lived. Kenny's superb translation is accompanied by a fine introduction, in which he highlights the similarities and differences between this book and the better-known Nicomachean Ethics, with which it holds three books in common. There are also many useful explanatory notes which clarify the arguments and allusions that Aristotle makes
Notes Translated from the Ancient Greek
Contains a translation of Aristotle's On virtues and vices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-399) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ethics.
Virtues.
Vices.
Virtue.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Virtue
Ethics
Vices
Virtues
Form Electronic book
Author Simpson, Peter, 1951-
ISBN 9781412849197
1412849195
Other Titles Eudemian ethics. English
OTHER TI De virtutibus et vitiis (Peripatetic school treatise : 1st century). English