Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

This second edition is an accurate, readable and accessible translation of one of the world's greatest ethical works.

Aristotle (Author), Roger Crisp (Edited and translated by)

9781107612235, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 November 2014

225 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.2 cm, 0.4 kg

Praise for the first edition: 'A teacher looking for a single translation of the Nicomachean Ethics to use as a textbook, and a general reader who wishes to rely on a single translation of this work, will do well to choose Crisp.' Utilitas

This new edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is an accurate, readable and accessible translation of one of the world's greatest ethical works. Based on lectures Aristotle gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavour. It offers seminal, practically oriented discussions of many central ethical issues, including the role of luck in human well-being, moral education, responsibility, courage, justice, moral weakness, friendship and pleasure, with an emphasis on the exercise of virtue as the key to human happiness. This second edition offers an updated editor's introduction and suggestions for further reading, and incorporates the line numbers as well as the page numbers of the Greek text. With its emphasis on accuracy and readability, it will enable readers without Greek to come as close as possible to Aristotle's work.

Introduction
Chronology
Further reading
Note on the text
Nicomachean Ethics
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Glossary
Index.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]