Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107687691 ISBN 13: 9781107687691

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 newly-commissioned 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.

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Book Description

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. This collection of newly-commissioned essays, written by both senior and younger scholars in the field, presents a thorough and close examination of the work.

About the Author

Jon Miller is Associate Professor at Queen's University, Ontario. His previous publications include Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge, 2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107687691
• ISBN 13: 9781107687691
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 302
• Editor: Miller Jon