The Blackwell guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics / edited by Richard Kraut.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kraut, Richard, 1944-

Series:

Blackwell guides to great works.

Blackwell guides to great works ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Aristotle's ethical treatises / Chris Bobonich

Human good and human function / Gavin Lawrence

How to justify ethical propositions : Aristotle's method / Richard Kraut

The central doctrine of the mean / Rosalind Hursthouse

Aristotle on moral virtue and the fine / Gabriel Richardson Lear

Aristotle on the voluntary / Susan Sauve Meyer

Aristotle on greatness of soul / Roger Crisp

Aristotle's justice / Charles M. Young

Aristotle on the virtues of thought / C.D.C. Reeve

The practical syllogism / Paula Gottlieb

Acrasia and self-control / A.W. Price

Pleasure and pain in Aristotle's ethics / Dorothea Frede

The Nicomachean account of Philia / Jennifer Whiting

Aristotle's political ethics / Malcom Schofield

Aquinas, natural law, and Aristotelian eudaimonism / T.H. Irwin

Aristotle and contemporary ethics / Sarah Broadie.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786610286126

9781280286124

1280286121

9780470799994

0470799994

9780470776513

047077651X

9781405153140

1405153148

OCLC:

437159320