Michael Pakaluk (Professor, Clark University, Massachusetts)

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael Pakaluk offers a thorough and lucid examination of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, uncovering its motivations and basic views while paying careful attention to its arguments. His book will be invaluable for all student readers encountering one of the most important and influential works of Western philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780521817424
• ISBN-10: 0521817420
• Artikelnr.: 21713611

Autorenporträt

Michael Pakaluk is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clark University, Massachusetts. He has published extensively in the history of philosophy, including Plato, Aquinas, Hume, and Reid, as well as in political philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Reading Aristotle's 'Ethics'
2. An outline of the goal of human life
3. Character-related virtue
4. Actions as signs of character
5. Some particular character-related virtues
6. Justice as a particular character-related virtue
7. Thinking-related virtue
8. Arkrasia, or failure of self-control
9. Friendship
10. Pleasure
11. Happiness in outline.

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1. Reading Aristotle's 'Ethics'; 2. An outline of the goal of human life; 3. Character-related virtue; 4. Actions as signs of character; 5. Some particular character-related virtues; 6. Justice as a particular character-related virtue; 7. Thinking-related virtue; 8. Arkrasia, or failure of self-control; 9. Friendship; 10. Pleasure; 11. Happiness in outline.