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The 1883 translation of the Ethics into English by R. H. M. Elwes is available in two places: Wikisource; Project Gutenberg; Original Latin text on Wikisource; EthicaDB Archived 2012-10-30 at the Wayback Machine hosts translations in several languages. EarlyModernTexts contains a simplified and abridged translation of the Ethics, by Jonathan ...
First page of a 1566 edition of the Aristotolic Ethics in Greek and Latin. The Nicomachean Ethics (/ ˌ n aɪ k ɒ m ə ˈ k i ə n, ˌ n ɪ-/; Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known works on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. [1]:
Jouissance (French pronunciation: [ʒwisɑ̃sə]) is a French language term held untranslatable into English. In continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, jouissance is the transgression of a subject 's regulation of pleasure. It is linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved, which spontaneously compels the subject to ...
The Ethics of Ambiguity (French: Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté) is Simone de Beauvoir's second major non-fiction work. It was prompted by a lecture she gave in 1945, where she claimed that it was impossible to base an ethical system on her partner Jean-Paul Sartre 's major philosophical work Being and Nothingness ( French : L'Être et le ...
Glas (also translated as Clang) is a 1974 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It combines a reading of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 's philosophical works and of Jean Genet 's autobiographical writing. "One of Derrida's more inscrutable books," [1] its form and content invite a reflection on the nature of literary genre and of writing.
French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century philosophy of science, existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, and postmodernism.
The Collins Robert French Dictionary (marketed in France as Le Robert et Collins Dictionnaire) is a bilingual dictionary of English and French derived [clarification needed] from the Collins Word Web, an analytical linguistics database. As well as its primary function as a bilingual dictionary, it also contains usage guides for English and ...
The Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary) is an encyclopedic dictionary published by the Enlightenment thinker Voltaire in 1764. The alphabetically arranged articles often criticize the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Islam, and other institutions. The first edition, released in June 1764, went by the name of Dictionnaire ...