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"One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy"

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.
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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... Read Full Overview

A new translation of one of the most important philosophical works of all time

Hailed by Dante as "the master of those who know," the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) surveyed every field of learning known to the ancient world and pioneered the sciences of psychology and logic. A disciple of Plato and the tutor to Alexander the Great, Aristotle... Read Full Overview

Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of the Irwin Nicomachean Ethics features a revised translation (with little editorial intervention), expanded notes (including a summary of the argument of each chapter), an expanded Introduction, and a revised... Read Full Overview

Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of the Irwin Nicomachean Ethics features a revised translation (with little editorial intervention), expanded notes (including a summary of the argument of each chapter), an expanded Introduction, and a revised... Read Full Overview

Figura capital del pensamiento filos?fico de Grecia junto con Plat?n, su maestro, Arist?teles (384-322 a.C.) fue autor de una vasta obra que abarc? desde la l?gica y la metaf?sica a la biolog?a y las ciencias naturales, pasando por la ret?rica, la po?tica, la pol?tica y la ?tica... Read Full Overview

Enduringly profound treatise, whose lasting effect on Western philosophy continues to resonate. Aristotle identifies the goal of life as happiness and discusses its attainment through the contemplation of philosophic truth.

This work presents the Nicomachean Ethics in a fresh English translation by Christopher Rowe that strives to be meticulously accurate yet also accessible. The translation is accompanied by Sarah Broadie's detailed line-by-line commentary, which brings out the subtlety of Aristotle's... Read Full Overview

Antiquity's most influential account of life's Supreme Good.

Tout art et toute investigation, et pareillement toute action et tout choix tendent vers quelque bien, a ce qu'il semble. Aussi a-t-on declare avec raison que le Bien est ce a quoi toutes choses tendent. Mais on observe, en fait, une certaine difference entre les fins: les unes... Read Full Overview

The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. The title is... Read Full Overview