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    The Nicomachean Ethics

    Author Aristotle
    Introduction by Jonathan Barnes
    Translated by J. A. K. Thomson
    Revised by Hugh Tredennick
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    "One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy" 

    Previously published as Ethics, Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics addresses the question of how to live well and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. Here Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness, and argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue', including moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. Aristotle's work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters. 

    This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by J.A.K. Thomson with revisions and notes by Hugh Tredennick, and an introduction and bibliography by Jonathan Barnes. 

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    The Nicomachean EthicsPreface
    Chronology
    Introduction
    Further Reading
    A Note on the Text
    Synopsis

    The Nicomachean Ethics
    Book I: The Object of Life
    Book II: Moral Goodness
    Book III: Moral Responsibility: Two Virtues
    Book IV: Other Moral Virtues
    Book V: Justice
    Book VI: Intellectual Virtues
    Book VII: Continence and Incontinence: THe Nature of Pleasure
    Book VIII: The Kinds of Friendship
    Book IX: The Grounds of Friendship
    Book X: Pleasure and the Life of Happiness

    Appendix 1: Table of Virtues and Vices
    Appendix 2: Pythagoreanism
    Appendix 3: The Sophists and Socrates
    Appendix 4: Plato's Theory of Forms
    Appendix 5: The Catagories
    Appendix 6: Substance and Change
    Appendix 7: Nature and Theology
    Appendix 8: The Practical Syllogism
    Appendix 9: Pleasure and Process
    Appendix 10: Liturgies
    Appendix 11: Aristotle in the Middle Ages

    Glossary of Greek Words
    Index of Names
    Subject Index

    Aristotle was born at Stageira, in the dominion of the kings of Macedonia, in 384 BCE. For 20 years he studied at Athens in the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and, sometime later, became tutor of the young Alexander the Great. When Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedonia in 335, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum, to which his great erudition attracted a large number of scholars. After Alexander's death in 323, anti-Macedonian feeling drove Aristotle out of Athens, and he fled to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. His writings, which were of extraordinary range, profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy, and they are still eagerly studied and debated by philosophers today. Very many of them have survived and among the most famous are the Ethics and the Politics. View titles by Aristotle

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    "One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy" 

    Previously published as Ethics, Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics addresses the question of how to live well and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. Here Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness, and argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue', including moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. Aristotle's work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters. 

    This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by J.A.K. Thomson with revisions and notes by Hugh Tredennick, and an introduction and bibliography by Jonathan Barnes. 

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Table of Contents

    The Nicomachean EthicsPreface
    Chronology
    Introduction
    Further Reading
    A Note on the Text
    Synopsis

    The Nicomachean Ethics
    Book I: The Object of Life
    Book II: Moral Goodness
    Book III: Moral Responsibility: Two Virtues
    Book IV: Other Moral Virtues
    Book V: Justice
    Book VI: Intellectual Virtues
    Book VII: Continence and Incontinence: THe Nature of Pleasure
    Book VIII: The Kinds of Friendship
    Book IX: The Grounds of Friendship
    Book X: Pleasure and the Life of Happiness

    Appendix 1: Table of Virtues and Vices
    Appendix 2: Pythagoreanism
    Appendix 3: The Sophists and Socrates
    Appendix 4: Plato's Theory of Forms
    Appendix 5: The Catagories
    Appendix 6: Substance and Change
    Appendix 7: Nature and Theology
    Appendix 8: The Practical Syllogism
    Appendix 9: Pleasure and Process
    Appendix 10: Liturgies
    Appendix 11: Aristotle in the Middle Ages

    Glossary of Greek Words
    Index of Names
    Subject Index

    Author

    Aristotle was born at Stageira, in the dominion of the kings of Macedonia, in 384 BCE. For 20 years he studied at Athens in the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and, sometime later, became tutor of the young Alexander the Great. When Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedonia in 335, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum, to which his great erudition attracted a large number of scholars. After Alexander's death in 323, anti-Macedonian feeling drove Aristotle out of Athens, and he fled to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. His writings, which were of extraordinary range, profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy, and they are still eagerly studied and debated by philosophers today. Very many of them have survived and among the most famous are the Ethics and the Politics. View titles by Aristotle

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