Aristotle
 

 

Funeral Oration
The Republic of Plato
Aristotle

 

The linked pages contain my edited version of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics.

In the linked pages,  the headings and my editorial comments are in italics. The non-italicized text is from the David Ross translation of the Nichomachean Ethics. The numbers in parentheses at the beginning of each paragraph give the book, chapter and, where there is more than one, paragraph number of each selection.

Introduction to this edition of the Nichomachean Ethics. An overview of the nature of the Aristotle's text and this edition of it.

The Nichomachean Ethics

I. Goods and Happiness

A. The variety of human ends I: actions and products

B. The hierarchy of goods and the science that studies it, politics

C. The Hierarchy of Ends

D. Eudamonia / happiness as the end of human beings

E. What Is Eudamonia? Some Possibilities

F. Happiness and virtue: the function of man

G. The Variety of Human Ends II: Internal and External Goods

H. Eudamonia and Self-Sufficiency / Luck and Fortune

II. The Study of Ethicsl

III. The Soul

A. Parts of the Soul

IV. The Nature of Moral Virtue

A. Moral Virtue and habituation

B. We become virtuous by doing virtuous actions: Further Considerations

C. Virtues and States of Character

D. Virtues aim at the mean relative to us.

V. An Outline of the Virtues

VI. Pleasure 

VII. Magnanimity

VIII. Philosophy