The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

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Richard Kraut
Wiley, Jan 30, 2006 - Philosophy - 384 pages
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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About the author (2006)

Richard Kraut is Professor of Philosophy and Classics, and the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities, at Northwestern University. He is the author of Socrates and the State (1984), Aristotle on the Human Good (1989), and Aristotle: Political Philosophy (2002).

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Blackwell Guides to Great Works
EditorRichard Kraut
Editionrevised
PublisherWiley, 2006
ISBN1405120207, 9781405120203
Length384 pages
Subjects › 

Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Philosophy / General
  
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