Nicomachean Ethics Summary. Aristotle begins by seeking to identify the best way of life. To do this, it’s necessary to identify the best good, or end—the thing people pursue for its own sake, not for the sake of anything else. He digresses to explain that Nicomachean Ethics will be a work of political science, the science which seeks the good of the city. Nicomachean Ethics/5 good judge of that subject, and the man who has received an all-round education is a good judge in general. Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and areFile Size: KB. Nicomachean Ethics. By Aristotle. Written B.C.E. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nicomachean Ethicshas been divided intothe following sections: Book I [65k] Book II [50k] Book III [74k] Book IV [69k].
1 Aristotle gives flute-playing as an instance of an art the practice of which is an end in itself, in contrast with the art of building, the end of which is the house built Aristot. Gtr. Mor. b 27 ff. 2 Or perhaps 'both to ascertain and to secure.'. 3 καλόν is a term of admiration applied to what is correct, especially （1） bodies well shaped and works of art or handicraft. Book 2. 1. Virtue being, as we have seen, of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue is for the most part both produced and increased by instruction, and therefore requires experience and time; whereas moral or ethical virtue is the product of habit （ethos）, and has indeed derived its name, with a slight variation of form. Selections from Book VII of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. by Aristotle translated by W.D. Ross. 7 With regard to the pleasures and pains and appetites and aversions arising through touch and taste, to which both self-indulgence and temperance were formerly narrowed down, it (is) possible to be in such a state as to be defeated even by those of them which most people master, or to master.
Nicomachean Ethics. By Aristotle. Written B.C.E. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nicomachean Ethicshas been divided intothe following sections: Book I [65k] Book II [50k] Book III [74k] Book IV [69k]. Nicomachean Ethics was written by Aristotle around BCE. Nicomachean Ethics Summary. Aristotle begins by seeking to identify the best way of life. To do this, it’s necessary to identify the best good, or end—the thing people pursue for its own sake, not for the sake of anything else. He digresses to explain that Nicomachean Ethics will be a work of political science, the science which seeks the good of the city.
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