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Nicomachean Ethics

By Aristotle
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, a foundational work in Western philosophy, explores the nature of the good life and the virtues necessary to achieve happiness. Drawing on his experience as a philosopher and tutor to Alexander the Great, Aristotle examines practical ethics through reasoned arguments, focusing on virtue, character, and moral responsibility.
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Nearly all the works that Aristotle (384–322 BC) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). Nicomachean Ethics is antiquity's most influential account of life's Supreme Good.

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Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born at Stagirus in 384 BCE. He was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. Under Plato's tutelage at Athens, he studied and later taught there from 367 to 347 BCE. Subsequently, he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor. During this time, he married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time in Mitylene, he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon in 343–342 BCE to be the tutor of his teen-aged son, Alexander. After Philip's death in 336 BCE, Aristotle became head of his own school (the "Peripatetics"), the Lyceum at Athens. Due to anti-Macedonian sentiment, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea after Alexander's death in 323 BCE, where he died in 322 BCE.

Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless extant ones are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda, some of which are spurious. These can be categorised as follows:

I. Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Oeconomica (on the good of the family); Virtues and Vices.

II. Logical: Categories; On Interpretation; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); On Sophistical Refutations; Topica.

III. Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect), including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, and facts about animals.

IV. Metaphysics: On being as being.

V. On Art: Art of Rhetoric and Poetics.

VI. Other works include the Athenian Constitution and more works of doubtful authorship.

VII. Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature, as well as treatises on rhetoric, politics, and metaphysics.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.

Series: Loeb Classical Library

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674990814

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 January 1926

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Illustration: Index

Contributors:

  • Translated by H. Rackham
  • Translated by H. Rackham
  • Translated by Harris Rackham

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 108.0mm

Height: 162.0mm

Weight: 476g

Pages: 688

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Ancient & Classical History Aristotle Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Series: Loeb Classical Library

About the Author

Harris Rackham (1868–1944) was a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge.

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