Nicomachean Ethics

Name: Nicomachean Ethics
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ISBN: 9780199213610

ISBN-10: 0199213615

ISBN-13: 9780199213610

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Aristotle, David Ross, Lesley Brown

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A student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is one of the towering figures in Western thought. A brilliant thinker with wide-ranging interests, he wrote important works in physics, biology, poetry, politics, morality, metaphysics, and ethics. In the Nicomachean Ethics, which he is said to have dedicated to his son Nicomachus, Aristotle's guiding question is what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness. "Happiness," he wrote, "is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world." But he means not something we feel, not an emotion, but rather an especially good kind of life. Happiness is made up of activities in which we use the best human…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.72" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

David Ross is the author of "A Little History of Scotland" and "A Little History of England".

Sir David Ross (1877-1971) was Provost of Oriel College and Deputy Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. He was General Editor of the complete Oxford Translation of Aristotle. Lesley Brown is a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Somerville College Oxford.