The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics,9781405120203

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

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ISBN13: 9781405120203
ISBN10: 1405120207
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-01-30
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Richard Kraut is Professor of Philosophy and Classics, and the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities, at Northwestern University. He is the author of Socrates and the State (1984), Aristotle on the Human Good (1989), and Aristotle: Political Philosophy (2002).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgment ix
Abbreviations x
Introduction 1(11)
Richard Kraut
Aristotle's Ethical Treatises
12(25)
Chris Bobonich
Human Good and Human Function
37(39)
Gavin Lawrence
How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method
76(20)
Richard Kraut
The Central Doctrine of the Mean
96(20)
Rosalind Hursthouse
Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine
116(21)
Gabriel Richardson Lear
Aristotle on the Voluntary
137(21)
Susan Sauve Meyer
Aristotle on Greatness of Soul
158(21)
Roger Crisp
Aristotle's Justice
179(19)
Charles M. Young
Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought
198(20)
C. D. C. Reeve
The Practical Syllogism
218(16)
Paula Gottlieb
Acrasia and Self-control
234(21)
A. W. Price
Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics
255(21)
Dorothea Frede
The Nicomachean Account of Philia
276(29)
Jennifer Whiting
Aristotle's Political Ethics
305(18)
Malcolm Schofield
Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaimonism
323(19)
T. H. Irwin
Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics
342(20)
Sarah Broadie
Index of Passages from Aristotle 362(15)
General Index 377

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