The Nicomachean EthicsPenguin, 2004/03/30 - 400 ページ "One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy" Previously published as Ethics, Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics addresses the question of how to live well and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. Here Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness, and argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue', including moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. Aristotle's work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by J.A.K. Thomson with revisions and notes by Hugh Tredennick, and an introduction and bibliography by Jonathan Barnes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
目次
The Object of Life | 3 |
Moral Goodness | 31 |
Moral Responsibility Two Virtues | 50 |
Other Moral Virtues | 82 |
Justice | 112 |
Intellectual Virtues | 144 |
Continence and Incontinence The Nature of Pleasure | 167 |
The Kinds of Friendship | 200 |
Appendix 4 Platos Theory of Forms | 292 |
Appendix 5 The Categories | 295 |
Appendix 6 Substance and Change | 296 |
Appendix 7 Nature and Theology | 300 |
Appendix 8 The Practical Syllogism | 302 |
Appendix 9 Pleasure and Process | 303 |
Appendix 10 Liturgies | 305 |
Appendix 11 Aristotle in the Middle Ages | 306 |
The Grounds of Friendship | 228 |
Pleasure and the Life of Happiness | 254 |
Appendix 1 Table of Virtues and Vices | 285 |
Appendix 2 Pythagoreanism | 287 |
Appendix 3 The Sophists and Socrates | 289 |
Glossary of Greek Words | 310 |
Index of Names | 313 |
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xl ページ - And, whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.
xl ページ - Essay, are not proposed as principles, but barely as hints to awaken and exercise the inquisitive reader, on points not beneath the attention of the ablest men. Those great men, Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle, the most consummate in politics, who founded states, or instructed princes, or wrote most accurately on public government, were at the same time most acute at all abstracted and sublime speculations ; the clearest light being ever necessary to guide the most important actions.