Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
A Critical Guide

This volume presents scholarship dealing with the broad range of issues found in Aristotle's most important ethical treatise.

Jon Miller (Edited by)

9781107687691, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 May 2013

302 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.4 kg

"...a new and somewhat unprecedented (at least in Aristotle scholarship) genre of collection.... Jon Miller’s introduction surveys major ethical philosophers writing between approximately 1870 and 1960 such as Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and R. M. Hare to show what Miller calls a surprising episode in the reception of Aristotle’s Ethics..."
Thornton C. Lockwood, Quinnipiac University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most important ethical treatises ever written, and has had a profound influence on the subsequent development of ethics and moral psychology. This collection of essays, written by both senior and younger scholars in the field, presents a thorough and close examination of the work. The essays address a broad range of issues including the compositional integrity of the Ethics, the nature of desire, the value of emotions, happiness and the virtues. The result is a volume which will challenge and advance the scholarship on the Ethics, establishing new ways of viewing and appreciating the work for all scholars of Aristotle.

Introduction Jon Miller
Part I. Textual Issues: 1. On the unity of the Nicomachean Ethics Michael Pakaluk
Part II. Happiness: 2. Living for the sake of an ultimate end Susan Sauvé
3. Contemplation and Eudaimonia in the Nicomachean Ethics Norman O. Dahl
4. Aristotle on Eudaimonia, Nous, and divinity A. A. Long
Part III. Psychology: 5. Aristotle, agents, and action Iakovos Vasilou
6. Wicked and inappropriate passion Stephen Leighton
7. Perfecting pleasures: the metaphysics of pleasure in Nicomachean Ethics X Christopher Shields
8. Aristotle's definition of non-rational pleasure and pain and desire Klaus Corcilius
9. Non-rational desire and Aristotle's moral psychology Giles Pearson
Part IV. Virtues: 10. Beauty and morality in Aristotle T. H. Irwin
11. Justice in the Nicomachean Ethics Book V Hallvard Fossheim.

Subject Areas: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]