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The Meaning of άγαθόν in the Ethics of Aristotle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Extract

I have for some time found it increasingly difficult to resist a conclusion so heretical that the mere acceptance of it may seem a proof of lunacy. Yet the failure of a recent attempt to resist it has led me to want to confess the heresy. And at any rate a statement of my reasons may provoke a refutation.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1935

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References

page 29 note 1 Gorgias, p. 467.

page 31 note 1 Ethics, I, 7, 4.

page 31 note 2 Ibid., I, 5, 8.

page 33 note 1 Ethics, I, 6, II.

page 36 note 1 Ethics, I, 8, 11.

page 37 note 1 Ethics I, 13, § 1.

page 38 note 1 [ταúτης (i.e. ευδαιμονíας) γαρ Xáριν τα λοιπàπàντα π;àντες πρ;áττομεν, Ethics, I, 12, 7.]