Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X
Title | Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X PDF eBook |
Author | Joachim Aufderheide |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2020-01-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107104408 |
Presents a new translation with commentary exploring the final book of Aristotle's Ethics in a philosophically rigorous yet interpretatively open way.
Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Title | Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Thomas (Aquinas) |
Publisher | St. Augustine's Press |
Pages | 718 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Philosophy |
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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.
Nicomachean Ethics
Title | Nicomachean Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | SDE Classics |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2019-11-05 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781951570279 |
Happy Lives and the Highest Good
Title | Happy Lives and the Highest Good PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel Richardson Lear |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2009-01-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 140082608X |
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.
In Pursuit of the Good
Title | In Pursuit of the Good PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Salem |
Publisher | Paul Dry Books |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1589880501 |
What is friendship? What is the best life? How does one decide? Try Salem on Aristotle.
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Polansky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 487 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0521192765 |
This volume provides a systematic guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, a key text of ancient philosophy, and Western philosophy in general.
Briefly: Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics
Title | Briefly: Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | David Mills Daniel |
Publisher | Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2007-06-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0334041317 |
Briefly: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a short summary of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics which is designed to assist university and school-leaving students in acquiring knowledge and understanding of this key text in the philosophy of religion. The book closely adheres to Aristotle's text, enabling the reader to follow each development in the argument as it occurs. Following the detailed summary which page references the original and includes useful key quotes, is a shorter summary acting as an overview of Nicomachean Ethics, which is intended to aid memory.