The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean EthicsA vigorous polemicist as well as a rational philosopher, Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) has the task in his ethics of demonstrating how men become good and why happiness can, and should, be our goal. The success of Aristotle's endeavour may be measured by the enormous impact of his ethics on Western moral philosophy through the centuries. represents an exacting, exciting challenge to the reader. By converting ethics from a theoretical to a practical science, and by introducing psychology into his study of behaviour, Aristotle both widens the field of moral philosophy and simultaneously makes it more accessible to anyone who seeks an understanding of human nature. |
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A. J. P. KENNY actions activity affection akrasia Appendix aretē argument Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's called cause character choice choose concerned conduct considered contemplation continent contrary courage deliberation desire discussion disposition doctrine enjoy equal especially Ethics eudaimonia Eudemian Ethics evil excess and deficiency fact faculty feelings friends friendship G. E. L. OWEN G. E. M. ANSCOMBE give Glossary Greek happiness Hence honour human ignorance Iliad illiberal implies incontinent injustice intellectual judgement justice kind knowledge liberal licentious lives magnanimous matter mean meta-ethical moral virtue nature Nicomachean Ethics object one's particular perfect person philosophy phronesis Plato pleasant pleasure and pain political possess presumably prodigal prudence qualities reason regard relation right principle sake seems sense share similarly sort soul Speusippus syllogism temperate things thought timocracy tion truth unjust vice virtuous voluntary W. D. ROSS whereas word wrong