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How to flourish : an ancient guide to living well : selections from the Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle ; selected, translated, and introduced by Susan Sauvé Meyer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection B430.A5 H68 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aristotle, author.
- Series:
- Ancient wisdom for modern readers
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Ethics.
- Well-being--Early works to 1800.
- Well-being.
- Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.
- Aristotle.
- Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle).
- Happiness.
- Genre:
- Early works
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Other Title:
- Ancient guide to living well : selections from the Nicomachean ethics
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English, with translated material facing the original Ancient Greek text.
- Summary:
- "A selection of key passage from Aristotle's seminal work the Nicomachean Ethics, which sets out what it means to flourish and live life well"-- Provided by publisher.
- "Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing-the Nicomachean Ethics-in a lively new abridged translationAristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a carefully abridged version of the entire work in a highly readable and colloquial new translation by Susan Sauvé Meyer that makes Aristotle's timeless insights about how to lead a good life more engaging and accessible than ever before.For Aristotle, flourishing means becoming a good person through practice, and having a life of the mind. To that end, he draws vivid portraits of virtuous and vicious characters, and offers sound practical advice about everything from eating and drinking to managing money, controlling anger, getting along with others, and telling jokes. He also distinguishes different kinds of wisdom that are essential to flourishing and offers an unusual perspective on how to appreciate our place in the universe and our relation to the divine.Omitting Aristotle's digressions and repetitions and overly technical passages, How to Flourish provides connecting commentary that allows readers to follow the continuous line of his thought; it also features the original Greek on facing pages. The result is an inviting and lively version of an essential work about how to flourish and lead a good and happy life"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The goal of life
- Building character
- Taking responsibility
- Virtue and vice in action
- Virtues for the thinking person
- Losing control
- Friendship and the good life
- How we flourish
- The human soul and its virtues.
- Notes:
- "The Greek text ... was edited by Ingram Bywater (Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea, Oxford: Clarendon, 1894) ... The few occasions where I have deviated from Bywater's text are moarked by superscript in the Greek text and explained in the textual notes at the end of the volume."--page xx.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index.
- Contains:
- Container of: Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). Greek (Bywater)
- Container of: Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics. Selections (Ancient wisdom for modern readers). English (Meyer)
- Other Format:
- Online version: How to flourish.
- ISBN:
- 9780691238623
- 0691238626
- OCLC:
- 1336535193
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