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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Aristotle devotes a significant portion of the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics to the topic of virtue of character (ethike arete). In each workhe precedes his detailed treatment of the particular virtues of char-acter (courage, temperance, liberality, and so on) with a general account of ethical virtue (NE II–III. 5; EE II; cf. MM I. 5–19). The general account concludes, in both cases, with an extended discussion of voluntariness (to hekousion) and related notions (NE III. 1–5; EE II. 6–11; cf. MM I. 9–19). In order to understand Aristotle's views on voluntariness, we must first understand why he thinks that an account of the voluntary belongs in a treatise on virtue of character. [REVIEW]Susan Sauvé Meyer
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
Introduction.  (pages 1–11)Richard Kraut
Aristotle's ethical treatises.  (pages 12-36)Chris Bobonich
Human good and human function.  (pages 37–75)Gavin Lawrence
How to justify ethical propositions : Aristotle's method.  (pages 76--95)Richard Kraut
The central doctrine of the mean.  (pages 96--115)Rosalind Hursthouse
Aristotle on moral virtue and the fine.  (pages 116–136)Gabriel Richardson Lear
Aristotle on the Voluntary.  (pages 137-157)Susan Sauvé Meyer
Aristotle on greatness of soul.  (pages 158--178)Roger Crisp
Aristotle's justice.  (pages 179--197)Charles M. Young
Aristotle on the virtues of thought.  (pages 198-217)C. D. C. Reeve
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]  (pages 218)Paula Gottlieb
The practical syllogism.  (pages 218--233)Paula Gottlieb
Acrasia and self-control.  (pages 234--254)A. W. Price
Pleasure and pain in Aristotle's ethics.  (pages 255--275)Dorothea Frede
The nicomachean account of philia.  (pages 276--304)Jennifer Whiting
Aristotle's political ethics.  (pages 305--322)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]  (pages 305)Malcolm Schofield
Aquinas, natural law, and aristotelian eudaimonism.  (pages 323--341)T. H. Irwin
Aristotle and contemporary ethics.  (pages 342--361)Sarah Broadie

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