The Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle, J. A. K. Thomson (Translator), Hugh Tredennick (Revised by), Jonathan Barnes (Introduction by)
ISBN-10: 0140449493
ISBN-13: 9780140449495
$15.00
Book Specs
Binding
UK-B Format Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published on
Mar 30, 2004
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8.50x5.43x0.94 Inches
Weight
0.73 Pounds
About the Book
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness.
He argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue', for example with 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.