Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: A Critical Guide

by Edited by Jon Miller

• ISBN13: 9780521514484
• ISBN10: 0521514487
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations and transliteration	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Textual Issues	p. 21
On the unity of the Nicomachean Ethics	p. 23
Happiness	p. 45
Living for the sake of an ultimate end	p. 47
Contemplation and eudaimonia in the Nicomachean Ethics	p. 66
Aristotle on eudaimonia, nous, and divinity	p. 92
Philosophical Psychology	p. 115
Aristotle's definition of non-rational pleasure and pain and desire	p. 117
Non-rational desire and Aristotle's moral psychology	p. 144
Aristotle, agents, and actions	p. 170
Perfecting pleasures: the metaphysics of pleasure in Nicomachean Ethics x	p. 191
Inappropriate passion	p. 211
Virtues	p. 237
Beauty and morality in Aristotle	p. 239
Justice in the Nicomachean Ethics Book v	p. 254
Bibliography	p. 276
Index	p. 286
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