Title
The Eudemian ethics / Aristotle ; translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Kenny.
Uniform Title
Eudemian ethics. English
ISBN
9780199586431 (pbk.)
0199586438 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the Ancient Greek.
Description
xxxviii, 195 p. ; 20 cm.
Call Number
B422.A5 K46 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
170
Summary
A major treatise on moral philosophy by Aristotle, this is the first time the Eudemian Ethics has been published in its entirety in any modern language. Equally important, the volume has been translated by Sir Anthony Kenny, one of Britain's most distinguished academics and philosophers, and a leading authority on Aristotle. In The Eudemian Ethics, Aristotle explores the factors that make life worth living. He considers the role of happiness, and what happiness consists of, and he analyzes various aspects that contribute to it: human agency, the relation between action and virtue, and the concept of virtue itself. Aristotle classifies and examines the various moral and intellectual virtues, and he considers the roles of friendship and pleasure in a life well lived. Kenny's superb translation is accompanied by a fine introduction, in which he highlights the similarities and differences between this book and the better-known Nicomachean Ethics, with which it holds three books in common. There are also many useful explanatory notes which clarify the arguments and allusions that Aristotle makes--Publisher.
Note
Translated from the Ancient Greek.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxi]-xxxii) and index.
Series
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Introduction
Note on the text and translation
Select bibliography
A chronology of Aristotle
Outline of The Eudemian Ethics
The Eudemian Ethics. Book 1 : Happiness the chief good
Book 2 : Virtue, freedom, and responsibility
Book 3 : The moral virtues
Book 4 : Justice
Book 5 : Intellectual virtue
Book 6 : Continence and incontinence : pleasure
Book 7 : Friendship
Book 8 : Virtue, knowledge, nobility, and happiness
Explanatory notes
Glossary of key terms.
