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Preface | |
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Abbreviations and Conventions | |
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Introduction | |
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Nicomachean Ethics | |
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[Happiness] | |
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[Ends and Goods] | |
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[The Highest Good and Political Science] | |
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[The Method of Political Science] | |
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[Common Beliefs] | |
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[The Three Lives] | |
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[The Platonic Form of the Good] | |
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[An Account of the Human Good] | |
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[Defense of the Account of the Good] | |
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[How Is Happiness Achieved?] | |
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[Can We Be Happy during Our Lifetime?] | |
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[How Happiness Can Be Affected after One's Death] | |
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[Praise and Honor] | |
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[Introduction to the Virtues] | |
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[Virtue of Character] | |
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[How a Virtue of Character Is Acquired] | |
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[Habituation] | |
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[The Importance of Pleasure and Pain] | |
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[Virtuous Actions versus Virtuous Character] | |
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[Virtue of Character: Its Genus] | |
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[Virtue of Character: Its Differentia] | |
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[The Particular Virtues of Character] | |
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[Relations between Mean and Extreme States] | |
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[How Can We Reach the Mean?] | |
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[Preconditions of Virtue] | |
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[Voluntary Action] | |
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[Decision] | |
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[Deliberation] | |
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[Wish] | |
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[Virtue and Vice Are in Our Power] | |
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[The Individual Virtues of Character] | |
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[Bravery; Its Scope] | |
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[Bravery; Its Characteristic Outlook] | |
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[Conditions That Resemble Bravery] | |
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[Feelings Proper to Bravery] | |
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[Temperance; Its Scope] | |
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[Temperance; Its Outlook] | |
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[Intemperance] | |
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[Generosity] | |
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[Magnificence] | |
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[Magnanimity] | |
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[The Virtue Concerned with Small Honors] | |
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[Mildness] | |
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[Friendliness] | |
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[Truthfulness] | |
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[Wit] | |
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[Shame] | |
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[Justice] | |
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[Varieties of Justice] | |
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[Special Justice Contrasted with General] | |
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[Justice in Distribution] | |
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[Justice in Rectification] | |
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[Justice in Exchange] | |
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[Political Justice] | |
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[Justice by Nature and by Law] | |
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[Justice, Injustice, and the Voluntary] | |
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[Puzzles about Justice and Injustice] | |
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[Decency] | |
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[Injustice to Oneself] | |
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[Virtues of Thought] | |
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[The Mean and the Virtues of Thought] | |
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[Thought, Desire, and Decision] | |
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[Scientific Knowledge] | |
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[Craft Knowledge] | |
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[Prudence] | |
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[Understanding] | |
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[Wisdom versus Prudence] | |
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[Types of Prudence] | |
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[Good Deliberation] | |
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[Comprehension] | |
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[Practical Thought and Particulars] | |
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[Puzzles about Prudence and Wisdom] | |
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[Prudence and Virtue of Character] | |
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[Incontinence] | |
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[Virtue, Vice, and Incontinence] | |
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[Puzzles about Incontinence] | |
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[Incontinence and Ignorance] | |
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[Simple Incontinence] | |
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[Bestiality and Disease] | |
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[Incontinence and Related Conditions] | |
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[Incontinence, Intemperance, and Softness] | |
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[Why Intemperance Is Worse than Incontinence] | |
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[Continence] | |
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[Answers to Further Questions about Incontinence] | |
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[Pleasure] | |
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[Questions about Pleasure] | |
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[Pleasure and Good] | |
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[Pleasure and Happiness] | |
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[Bodily Pleasures] | |
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[Friendship] | |
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[Common Beliefs and Questions] | |
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[The Object of Friendship] | |
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[The Three Types of Friendship] | |
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[Comparison between the Types of Friendship] | |
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[State and Activity in Friendship] | |
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[Activities Characteristic of the Different Types of Friendship] | |
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[Friendship between Unequals] | |
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[Giving and Receiving in Friendship] | |
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[Friendship in Communities] | |
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[Political Systems] | |
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[Friendships in Political Systems] | |
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[Friendships in Families] | |
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[Disputes in Friendships between Equals] | |
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[Disputes in Friendships between Unequals] | |
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[Friends with Dissimilar Aims] | |
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[Conflicts between Different Types of Friendships] | |
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[Dissolution of Friendships] | |
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[Self-love and Friendship] | |
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[Goodwill and Friendship] | |
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[Friendship and Concord] | |
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[Active Benevolence and Friendship] | |
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[Self-love and Selfishness] | |
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[Why Are Friends Needed?] | |
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[How Many Friends Are Needed?] | |
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[Friends in Good and Ill Fortune] | |
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[Shared Activity in Friendship] | |
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[Pleasure] | |
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[The Right Approach to Pleasure] | |
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[Arguments about Pleasure] | |
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[Pleasure Is a Good, but Not the Good] | |
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[Pleasure Is an Activity] | |
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[Pleasures Differ in Kind] | |
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[Happiness: Further Discussion] | |
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[Conditions for Happiness] | |
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[Happiness and Theoretical Study] | |
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[Theoretical Study and the Other Virtues] | |
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[From Ethics to Politics] | |
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[Moral Education] | |
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Notes | |
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Glossary | |
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Further Reading | |