Description
Previously published as "Ethics", Aristotle's "The Nicomachean Ethics" addresses the question of how to live well and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. Here Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness, and argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue', including moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. Aristotle's work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters.
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: 11/09/2016
Pages: 346
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9781684220441
ISBN10: 1684220440
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Political Science | General
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