The Blackwell guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics
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The Blackwell guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics
（Blackwell guides to great works, 4）
Blackwell, 2006
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Includes bibliographies and indexes
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: hbk ISBN 9781405120203
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgment.
Abbreviations.
Introduction (Richard Kraut).
1. Aristotle's Ethical Treatises (Chris Bobonich).
2. Human Good and Human Function (Gavin Lawrence).
3. How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method (Richard Kraut).
4. The Central Doctrine of the Mean (Rosalind Hursthouse).
5. Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine (Gabriel Richardson Lear).
6. Aristotle on the Voluntary (Susan Sauve Meyer).
7. Aristotle on Greatness of Soul (Roger Crisp).
8. Aristotle's Justice (Charles Young).
9. Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought (C.D.C. Reeve).
10. The Practical Syllogism (Paula Gottlieb).
11. Acrasia and Self-Control (A.W. Price).
12. Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics (Dorothea Frede).
13. The Nicomachean Account of Philia (Jennifer Whiting).
14. Aristotle's Political Ethics (Malcolm Schofield).
15. Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaemonism (T. H. Irwin).
16. Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics (Sarah Broadie).
Index of Passages from Aristotle.
General Index.
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: pbk ISBN 9781405120210
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgment ix
Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
Richard Kraut
1 Aristotle's Ethical Treatises 12
Chris Bobonich
2 Human Good and Human Function 37
Gavin Lawrence
3 How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method 76
Richard Kraut
4 The Central Doctrine of the Mean 96
Rosalind Hursthouse
5 Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine 116
Gabriel Richardson Lear
6 Aristotle on the Voluntary 137
Susan Sauve Meyer
7 Aristotle on Greatness of Soul 158
Roger Crisp
8 Aristotle's Justice 179
Charles M. Young
9 Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought 198
C. D. C. Reeve
10 The Practical Syllogism 218
Paula Gottlieb
11 Acrasia and Self-control 234
A. W. Price
12 Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics 255
Dorothea Frede
13 The Nicomachean Account of Philia 276
Jennifer Whiting
14 Aristotle's Political Ethics 305
Malcolm Schofield
15 Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaimonism 323
T. H. Irwin
16 Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics 342
Sarah Broadie
Index of Passages from Aristotle 362
General Index 377
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