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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics By Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)

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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. * The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself.

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Summary

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars.



  • The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself.
  • Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, the distinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness, self-control, and pleasure.

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Reviews

Searching for light on Aristotle's ethics? Look no further than this fine collection of new essays on the major topics of the Nicomachean Ethics from leading scholars of five countries. David Keyt, University of Washington


This is a stimulating and wide-ranging collection of lucid and rigorous essays by some of the world's finest Aristotelian scholars. It offers fresh insights into Aristotle's arguments, methodology, influence, and contemporary relevance and will appeal both to first-time readers and those returning to the work. Angela Hobbs, University of Warwick


A welcome addition for anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics. Its authors form an impressive list of scholars, and it covers a wide range of topics relevant to Aristotle's ethics. Worth owning. Norman Dahl, University of Minnesota

About Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)

Richard Kraut is Professor of Philosophy and Classics, and the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities, at Northwestern University. He is the author of Socrates and the State (1984), Aristotle on the Human Good (1989), and Aristotle: Political Philosophy (2002).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgment ix

Abbreviations x

Introduction 1
Richard Kraut

1 Aristotle's Ethical Treatises 12
Chris Bobonich

2 Human Good and Human Function 37
Gavin Lawrence

3 How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method 76
Richard Kraut

4 The Central Doctrine of the Mean 96
Rosalind Hursthouse

5 Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine 116
Gabriel Richardson Lear

6 Aristotle on the Voluntary 137
Susan Sauve Meyer

7 Aristotle on Greatness of Soul 158
Roger Crisp

8 Aristotle's Justice 179
Charles M. Young

9 Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought 198
C. D. C. Reeve

10 The Practical Syllogism 218
Paula Gottlieb

11 Acrasia and Self-control 234
A. W. Price

12 Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics 255
Dorothea Frede

13 The Nicomachean Account of Philia 276
Jennifer Whiting

14 Aristotle's Political Ethics 305
Malcolm Schofield

15 Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaimonism 323
T. H. Irwin

16 Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics 342
Sarah Broadie

Index of Passages from Aristotle 362

General Index 377

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GOR008044664
9781405120210
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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)
Richard Kraut (Northwestern University)
Blackwell Guides to Great Works
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20051222
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