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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle: <I>Nicomachean Ethics</I>

Aristotle: <I>Nicomachean Ethics</I>

2nd Edition
Aristotle
Roger Crisp, St Anne's College, Oxford
November 2014
Available
Paperback
9781107612235

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    This new edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is an accurate, readable and accessible translation of one of the world's greatest ethical works. Based on lectures Aristotle gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavour. It offers seminal, practically oriented discussions of many central ethical issues, including the role of luck in human well-being, moral education, responsibility, courage, justice, moral weakness, friendship and pleasure, with an emphasis on the exercise of virtue as the key to human happiness. This second edition offers an updated editor's introduction and suggestions for further reading, and incorporates the line numbers as well as the page numbers of the Greek text. With its emphasis on accuracy and readability, it will enable readers without Greek to come as close as possible to Aristotle's work.

    • A readable translation making Aristotle approachable for non-Greek readers
    • An accurate and literal translation providing assurance that the translation is close to Aristotle's original text
    • Inclusion of a glossary and an introduction helps give context for readers

    Reviews & endorsements

    Praise for the first edition: 'A teacher looking for a single translation of the Nicomachean Ethics to use as a textbook, and a general reader who wishes to rely on a single translation of this work, will do well to choose Crisp.' Utilitas

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    Product details

    November 2014
    Paperback
    9781107612235
    225 pages
    228 × 151 × 12 mm
    0.4kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • Chronology
    • Further reading
    • Note on the text
    • Nicomachean Ethics
    • Book I
    • Book II
    • Book III
    • Book IV
    • Book V
    • Book VI
    • Book VII
    • Book VIII
    • Book IX
    • Book X
    • Glossary
    • Index.
    • Aristotle

      Roger Crisp is Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He edited the Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics (2013), and is author of Reasons and the Good (2006) and several articles on ethics, including one for The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (Cambridge, 2014).

    • Editor and translator
    • Roger Crisp , St Anne's College, Oxford