Nicomachean Ethics

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Published Nov. 5, 2018 by Standard Ebooks.

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Aristotle examines how best to live by looking at the nature of those virtues that characterize the most thriving human beings, and then at how to acquire and develop such virtues. This book is considered the founding document of what is now known as the “virtue ethics” tradition.

        <p>Along the way, Aristotle delves into pleasure, happiness, justice, friendship, and willpower. He intended the <i>Nicomachean Ethics</i> to be the foundation on which to build his <i>Politics</i>.</p>
        <p><i>Nicomachean Ethics</i> is based on Aristotle’s lectures at the Lyceum and was originally collected as a series of ten scrolls. In translation it was hugely influential in the development of Western philosophic tradition, quickly becoming one of the core works of medieval philosophy.</p>

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A thorough handbook of social science and human psychology. Aristotle succeeds in mapping the human nature and describing every aspect of it, covering many areas of behavior and life. Praising the mean state in every page, he exorcises the defect and excess of every characteristic state. He concludes with how a man can follow the path of virtue, having already explained in the beginning that it is the only path that leads to happiness. It is indeed stunning that in every page, he exhibits such detail and familiarity. However, in some chapters he over-analyzes things, thus becoming boring and tiring for someone who has not a genuine interest in the whole spectrum of human nature.

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  • Ethics