The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Copyright © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Editor(s): Richard Kraut

Published Online: 25 FEB 2008

Print ISBN: 9781405120203

Online ISBN: 9780470776513

DOI: 10.1002/9780470776513

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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars.



  • The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself.
  • Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, the distinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness, self-control, and pleasure.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–x)

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      Introduction (pages 1–11)

      Richard Kraut

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      Chapter 1

      Aristotle's Ethical Treatises (pages 12–36)

      Chris Bobonich

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      Chapter 2

      Human Good and Human Function (pages 37–75)

      Gavin Lawrence

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      Chapter 3

      How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method (pages 76–95)

      Richard Kraut

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      Chapter 4

      The Central Doctrine of the Mean (pages 96–115)

      Rosalind Hursthouse

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      Chapter 5

      Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine (pages 116–136)

      Gabriel Richardson Lear

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      Chapter 6

      Aristotle on the Voluntary (pages 137–157)

      Susan Sauvé Meyer

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      Chapter 7

      Aristotle on Greatness of Soul (pages 158–178)

      Roger Crisp

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      Chapter 8

      Aristotle's Justice (pages 179–197)

      Charles M. Young

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      Chapter 9

      Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought (pages 198–217)

      C. D. C. Reeve

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      Chapter 10

      The Practical Syllogism (pages 218–233)

      Paula Gottlieb

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      Chapter 11

      Acrasia and Self-Control (pages 234–254)

      A. W. Price

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      Chapter 12

      Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics (pages 255–275)

      Dorothea Frede

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      Chapter 13

      The Nicomachean Account of Philia (pages 276–304)

      Jennifer Whiting

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      Chapter 14

      Aristotle's Political Ethics (pages 305–322)

      Malcolm Schofield

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      Chapter 15

      Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaimonism (pages 323–341)

      T. H. Irwin

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      Chapter 16

      Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics (pages 342–361)

      Sarah Broadie

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      Index of Passages from Aristotle (pages 362–376)

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      General Index (pages 377–384)

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