The Ethics of Aristotle : The Nicomachean Ethics - Softcover

Aristotle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140440550 ISBN 13: 9780140440553

Publisher: Penguin, 1955

Synopsis

A vigorous polemicist as well as a rational philosopher, Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) has the task in his ethics of demonstrating how men become good and why happiness can, and should, be our goal. The success of Aristotle's endeavour may be measured by the enormous impact of his ethics on Western moral philosophy through the centuries. Composed as mere lecture notes, it possesses a startling boldness and represents an exacting, exciting challenge to the reader. By converting ethics from a theoretical to a practical science, and by introducing psychology into his study of behaviour, Aristotle both widens the field of moral philosophy and simultaneously makes it more accessible to anyone who seeks an understanding of human nature.

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About the Author:

Aristotle was born in 384BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens at the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and some time later became tutor to Alexander the Great. On Alexander's succession to the throne of Macedonia in 336, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum. After Alexander's death he was driven out of Athens and fled to Chalcis in Euboea where he died in 322. His writings profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Greek (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1955
• ISBN 10: 0140440550
• ISBN 13: 9780140440553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384