The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

by Kraut, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781405120203
• ISBN10: 1405120207
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781405153140
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars.The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself. Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, the distinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness, self-control, and pleasure.

Author Biography

Richard Kraut is Professor of Philosophy and Classics, and the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities, at Northwestern University. He is the author of Socrates and the State (1984), Aristotle on the Human Good (1989), and Aristotle: Political Philosophy (2002).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Acknowledgment	ix
Abbreviations	x
Introduction	1	(11)
Richard Kraut
Aristotle's Ethical Treatises	12	(25)
Chris Bobonich
Human Good and Human Function	37	(39)
Gavin Lawrence
How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method	76	(20)
Richard Kraut
The Central Doctrine of the Mean	96	(20)
Rosalind Hursthouse
Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine	116	(21)
Gabriel Richardson Lear
Aristotle on the Voluntary	137	(21)
Susan Sauve Meyer
Aristotle on Greatness of Soul	158	(21)
Roger Crisp
Aristotle's Justice	179	(19)
Charles M. Young
Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought	198	(20)
C. D. C. Reeve
The Practical Syllogism	218	(16)
Paula Gottlieb
Acrasia and Self-control	234	(21)
A. W. Price
Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics	255	(21)
Dorothea Frede
The Nicomachean Account of Philia	276	(29)
Jennifer Whiting
Aristotle's Political Ethics	305	(18)
Malcolm Schofield
Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaimonism	323	(19)
T. H. Irwin
Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics	342	(20)
Sarah Broadie
Index of Passages from Aristotle	362	(15)
General Index	377