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Written 350 B.C.E. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nicomachean Ethics has been divided into the following sections: Download: A 456k text-only version is available for download. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, part of the Internet Classics Archive.
The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the “philosophy of human affairs;” but more frequently Political or Social Science.
Aristotle applies it by a sort of play on words to ἀρχή in its technical sense of a general principle of science, which is a ‘beginning’ in the sense that it is the starting-point of deductive reasoning.
Nicomachean Ethics. By Aristotle. Written 350 B.C.E. Translated by W. D. Ross. Book I. 1. Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Nicomachean Ethics. By Aristotle. Written 350 B.C.E. Translated by W. D. Ross. Book X. 1. After these matters we ought perhaps next to discuss pleasure.
1 · Aristotle introduces several central terms here: techne, a technical art or craft, such as shoemaking, and the knowledge that goes together with it; praxis, action, which issues from the parts of the soul characterized by longing and desiring; and proairesis, choice, closely tied to action. See the glossary for these and other key terms.
Chapter 1. Praise and blame attach to voluntary actions, i.e. actions done (1) not under compulsion, and (2) with knowledge of the circumstances Chapter 2. Moral virtue implies that the action is done (3) by choice; the object of choice is the result of previous deliberation Chapter 3.
Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle. BOOK I. 1. Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, chapter 1. book: chapter: section: 1. Every art and every investigation, and likewise every practical pursuit or undertaking, seems to aim at some good: hence it has been well said that the Good is That at which all things aim. [2] （. It is true that a certain variety is to be observed among the ends at ...
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