The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence—found their most powerful proponent in the pers
Aristotle's "Nicomachean ethics"
✍ Scribed by Otfried Hoffe, David Fernbach
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Pub
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English, German
- Leaves
- 276
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
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✦ Table of Contents
Content: Otfried Hoffe: Introduction
Otfried Hoffe: Ethics as practical philosophy - methodological considerations
John L. Ackrill: Aristotle on eudaimonia
Hellmut Flashar: The critique of Plato
Ursula Wolf: The sense of Aristotle's doctrine of the mean
Christof Rapp: Free will, choice, and responsibility
Gunther Bien: Aristotle on justice
Theodor Ebert: Phronesis - notes on a concept of Aristotle's Ethics
Richard Robinson: Aristotle on akrasia
Friedo Ricken: The value and nature of pleasure
Anthony Price: Friendship
Wolfgang Kullmann: The contemplative and the political forms of life
Otfried Hoffe: Prospect: Aristotle or Kant - against a simple alternative.
✦ Subjects
Aristotle. -- Nicomachean ethics. Ethics, Ancient. Ethics. Aristotle. PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy. Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle) Ethica Nicomachea (Aristoteles)
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