Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Name: Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
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ISBN: 9781405120210

ISBN-10: 1405120215

ISBN-13: 9781405120210

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Richard Kraut, C. David C. Reeve

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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself. Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, the distinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness, self-control, and pleasure.

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgment


Abbreviations


Introduction




Aristotle's Ethical Treatises




Human Good and Human Function




How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method




The Central Doctrine of the Mean




Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine




Aristotle on the Voluntary




Aristotle on Greatness of Soul




Aristotle's Justice




Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought




The Practical Syllogism




Acrasia and Self-control




Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics




The Nicomachean Account of Philia




Aristotle's Political Ethics




Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaimonism




Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics



Index of Passages from Aristotle


General Index