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Nicomachean Ethics

By Aristotle
Series: Focus Philosophical Library
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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle explores the concept of the good life and examines the nature of happiness. Aristotle discusses virtues, ethics, and morality while proposing that the ultimate goal of human life is to achieve eudaimonia, or flourishing, through virtuous living. The book delves into practical ethics, offering insights into how individuals can lead meaningful lives through reason and virtue.
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Nicomachean Ethics

At last, a complete translation of Aristotle's classic that is both faithful and readable. In this volume, Joe Sachs (translator of Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics) supplements his excellent translation with well-chosen notes and glossary of important terms. This is a major translation of a seminal book in Ethics.

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Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a lucid and useful translation of one of Aristotle's major works for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as well as for the general reader interested in the major works of western civilization.

This edition includes notes and a glossary, intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Aristotle's immediate audience.

Focus Philosophical Library books are distinguished by their commitment to faithful, clear, and consistent translations of texts and the rich world part and parcel of those texts.

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Sachs's translations of Nicomachean Ethics are praised for their exemplary combination of sensitivity to the original Greek and an accessible English style. Reviewers appreciate the profound awareness Sachs shows in rendering Aristotle's thought, making these translations indispensable for serious students of his philosophy. Moreover, Sachs's work provides helpful glossaries that elucidate his translational choices and offer insight into common alternatives, aiding readers in navigating secondary literature.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781585100354

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 January 2002

Country: United States

Imprint: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co

Edition: 2

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Joe Sachs

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 341g

Pages: 240

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Aristotle Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Series: Focus Philosophical Library

About the Author

Joe Sachs taught for thirty years at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. In addition to Nicomachean Ethics, he has translated Aristotle's Physics, Metaphysics, and On the Soul and, for the Focus Philosophical Library, Aristotle's Poetics, and Plato's Theaetetus and Republic.

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