The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's

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.

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).

Notes on Contributors

vii

Acknowledgment

ix

Abbreviations

x

Introduction

1

(11)

Richard Kraut

Aristotle's Ethical Treatises

12

(25)

Chris Bobonich

Human Good and Human Function

37

(39)

Gavin Lawrence

How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method

76

(20)

Richard Kraut

The Central Doctrine of the Mean

96

(20)

Rosalind Hursthouse

Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine

116

(21)

Gabriel Richardson Lear

Aristotle on the Voluntary

137

(21)

Susan Sauve Meyer

Aristotle on Greatness of Soul

158

(21)

Roger Crisp

Aristotle's Justice

179

(19)

Charles M. Young

Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought

198

(20)

C. D. C. Reeve

The Practical Syllogism

218

(16)

Paula Gottlieb

Acrasia and Self-control

234

(21)

A. W. Price

Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics

255

(21)

Dorothea Frede

The Nicomachean Account of Philia

276

(29)

Jennifer Whiting

Aristotle's Political Ethics

305

(18)

Malcolm Schofield

Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaimonism

323

(19)

T. H. Irwin

Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics

342

(20)

Sarah Broadie

Index of Passages from Aristotle

362

(15)

General Index

377

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