Nicomachean Ethics
Title | Nicomachean Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2016-10-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781539784388 |
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.
Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy
Title | Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Baracchi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2011-02-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781107400511 |
In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy, Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. Referring to a broad range of texts from the Aristotelian corpus, Baracchi shows how the theoretical is always informed by a set of practices, and, specifically, how one's encounter with phenomena, the world, or nature in the broadest sense, is always a matter of ethos.
The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics
Title | The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Gottlieb |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 243 |
Release | 2009-04-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 052176176X |
This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Nicomachean Ethics
Title | Nicomachean Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | 430 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 142500086X |
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.
Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Title | Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Thomas (Aquinas) |
Publisher | St. Augustine's Press |
Total Pages | 718 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN |
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.
Aristotelian Philosophy
Title | Aristotelian Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Kelvin Knight |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 409 |
Release | 2013-05-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 074563821X |
Aristotle is the most influential philosopher of practice, and Knight's new book explores the continuing importance of Aristotelian philosophy. First, it examines the theoretical bases of what Aristotle said about ethical, political and productive activity. It then traces ideas of practice through such figures as St Paul, Luther, Hegel, Heidegger and recent Aristotelian philosophers, and evaluates Alasdair MacIntyre's contribution. Knight argues that, whereas Aristotle's own thought legitimated oppression, MacIntyre's revision of Aristotelianism separates ethical excellence from social elitism and justifies resistance. With MacIntyre, Aristotelianism becomes revolutionary. MacIntyre's case for the Thomistic Aristotelian tradition originates in his attempt to elaborate a Marxist ethics informed by analytic philosophy. He analyses social practices in teleological terms, opposing them to capitalist institutions and arguing for the cooperative defence of our moral agency. In condensing these ideas, Knight advances a theoretical argument for the reformation of Aristotelianism and an ethical argument for social change.
Reading Aristotle's Ethics
Title | Reading Aristotle's Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Aristide Tessitore |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791430477 |
Presents the Nicomachean Ethics as a work of political philosophy, emphasizing the interplay between its practical political concerns and its underlying philosophic perspective and arguing that it is rhetorical in the precise Aristotelian meaning of the term.