The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

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Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2006)
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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

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Many students of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics recognize the value of comparisons between Aristotle and modern moralists. We are familiar with some of the ways in which reflection on Hume, Kant, Mill, Sidgwick, and more recent moral theorists can throw light on Aristotle. The light may come either from recognition of similarities or from a sharper awareness of differences.“Themes ancient and modern” is a familiar part of the contemporary study of Aristotle that needs no further commendation. [REVIEW]Natural Law Aquinas & Aristotelian Eudaimonism
Aristotle's ethical treatises.Chris Bobonich
Aristotle and contemporary ethics.Sarah Broadie
Aristotle on greatness of soul.Roger Crisp
Pleasure and pain in Aristotle's ethics.Dorothea Frede
Aristotle makes the controversial claim that it is impossible to have all the ethical virtues–bravery, temperance, generosity, magnificence, magna-nimity, the virtue concerned with honor on a small scale, mildness, truth-fulness, wit, friendliness, and justice–fully without having practical wisdom (phronesis), and that it is impossible to have practical wisdom without having all of the Aristotelian ethical virtues fully (NE VI. 13.1144 b30–1145a1). This raises a puzzle about what sort of reason is ... [REVIEW]Paula Gottlieb
The practical syllogism.Paula Gottlieb
The central doctrine of the mean.Rosalind Hursthouse
Aquinas, natural law, and aristotelian eudaimonism.T. H. Irwin
How to justify ethical propositions : Aristotle's method.Richard Kraut
Introduction.Richard Kraut
Human good and human function.Gavin Lawrence
Aristotle on moral virtue and the fine.Gabriel Richardson Lear
Aristotle on the Voluntary.Susan Sauvé Meyer
Acrasia and self-control.A. W. Price
Aristotle on the virtues of thought.C. D. C. Reeve
Aristotle's political ethics.Malcom Schofield
The Nicomachean Ethics is framed by a beginning (NEI. 1–3) and an ending (NE X. 9) which, in rather different ways, communicate a single message: politics is the activity and branch of study that deals with the subject matter of the work. For us, ethics and politics signify two distinct, if overlapping, spheres. For Aristotle, there is just one sphere–politics–conceived in ethical terms. This startling truth is generally downplayed (if not totally ignored) in many presenta-tions of the Nicomachean ... [REVIEW]Malcolm Schofield
The nicomachean account of philia.Jennifer Whiting
Aristotle's justice.Charles M. Young

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How to justify ethical propositions : Aristotle's method.Richard Kraut - 2006 - In The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 76--95.
Introduction.Richard Kraut - 2006 - In The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 1–11.
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The Nicomachean Ethics is framed by a beginning (NEI. 1–3) and an ending (NE X. 9) which, in rather different ways, communicate a single message: politics is the activity and branch of study that deals with the subject matter of the work. For us, ethics and politics signify two distinct, if overlapping, spheres. For Aristotle, there is just one sphere–politics–conceived in ethical terms. This startling truth is generally downplayed (if not totally ignored) in many presenta-tions of the Nicomachean ... [REVIEW]Malcolm Schofield - 2006 - In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Blackwell. pp. 305.
Aristotle on the virtues of thought.C. D. C. Reeve - 2006 - In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 198-217.
Pleasure and pain in Aristotle's ethics.Dorothea Frede - 2006 - In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 255--275.
The nicomachean account of philia.Jennifer Whiting - 2006 - In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 276--304.
Aristotle on moral virtue and the fine.Gabriel Richardson Lear - 2006 - In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 116–136.
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Aristotle on greatness of soul.Roger Crisp - 2006 - In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 158--178.
Aristotle on the Voluntary.Susan Sauvé Meyer - 2006 - In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 137-157.
Acrasia and self-control.A. W. Price - 2006 - In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 234--254.

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