Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing Dedication Contents Preface Abbreviations Introduction Nicomachean Ethics

Book I: Happiness and the Soul

I 1 Goods and Ends I 2 Ethics as a Sort of Politics I 3 The Level of Exactness to Be Expected in Ethics I 4 Different Views about Happiness I 5 Three Types of Lives I 6 Criticisms of Plato on the Good I 7 Completeness and Self-Sufficiency of Ends and the Function Argument I 8 The Function Argument Defended by Appeal to Things Said about Happiness I 9 How Happiness Is Achieved I 10 Should We Call No Human Being Happy until He is Dead? I 11 How What Happens after Death Affects Happiness I 12 Is Happiness Something Praiseworthy or Something Estimable? I 13 Remarks on the Soul

Book II: Virtue of Character

II 1 How Virtue Is Acquired, the Importance of Habit II 2 Ethics as a Practical Science II 3 Pleasure and Pain II 4 Virtuous Action and Virtuous Character II 5 Virtue of Character Defined: Its Genus II 6 Virtue of Character Defined: Its Differentia—the Mean II 7 The Individual Virtues of Character Introduced II 8 Means and Extremes II 9 Achieving the Mean

Book III: Action and the Virtues of Character

III 1 Voluntary and Involuntary Action III 2 Deliberate Choice III 3 Deliberation III 4 Wish III 5 Responsibility for Character and How the End Appears III 6 Courage III 7 Courage III 8 Courage-Like Conditions III 9 Courage and Feelings of Pleasure and Pain III 10 Temperance III 11 Temperance III 12 Intemperance

Book IV: Virtues of Character

IV 1 Generosity IV 2 Magnificence IV 3 Greatness of Soul IV 4 Nameless Virtue Concerned with Small Honors IV 5 Mild-Mannerdness IV 6 Nameless Virtue between Being Ingratiating and Being Disagreeable IV 7 Truthfulness IV 8 Wit IV 9 Shame

Book V: Justice

V 1 Types of Justice V 2 Special Justice and General Justice V 3 Justice in Allocations (Distributive Justice) V 4 Rectificatory Justice V 5 Justice in Exchange V 6 Political Justice V 7 Natural Justice and Legal Justice V 8 Voluntary and Involuntary Justice and Injustice V 9 Puzzles about Doing and Suffering Unjust Actions V 10 Decency V 11 Doing Injustice to Oneself

Book VI: Virtues of Thought

VI 1 Correct Reason and the Virtues of Thought VI 2 The Control of Action and Truth, Deliberate Choice VI 3 Scientific Knowledge VI 4 Craft Knowledge VI 5 Practical Wisdom VI 6 Understanding VI 7 Theoretical Wisdom and Practical Wisdom VI 8 Practical Wisdom and Politics VI 9 Good Deliberation VI 10 Comprehension VI 11 Consideration, Understanding, Practical Wisdom VI 12 Puzzles about Practical Wisdom and Theoretical Wisdom, Cleverness VI 13 Natural Virtue, Full Virtue, and Practical Wisdom

Book VII: Lack of Self-Control and Pleasure

VII 1 Beastliness, Lack of Self-Control, Method VII 2 Puzzles about Lack of Self-Control VII 3 The Sorts of Knowledge Present and Absent in Lack of Self-Control VII 4 Unconditional Lack of Self-Control VII 5 Beast-Like, Diseased, and Morbid Conditions VII 6 Spirit's and Appetite's Lack of Self-Control VII 7 Lack of Self-Control, Intemperance, Softness, and Resilience VII 8 Why Intemperance is Worse than Lack of Self-Control VII 9 Self-Control VII 10 Lack of Self-Control and Practical Wisdom VII 11 Pleasure and Pain VII 12 Pleasure and Goodness VII 13 Pleasure and Happiness VII 14 Bodily Pleasures

Book VIII: Friendship

VIII 1 Views about Friendship VIII 2 The Objects of Love and Friendship VIII 3 The Three Forms of Friendship VIII 4 Comparisons between the Forms of Friendship VIII 5 Friendship As an Activity and As a State VIII 6 Further Comparisons between the Forms of Friendship VIII 7 Friendships between Unequals VIII 8 Further Comparisons between the Forms of Friendship VIII 9 Friendships in Different Communities VIII 10 Political Constitutions VIII 11 Friendships in Different Constitutions VIII 12 Friendship in Families VIII 13 Complaints Arising in Friendships in Accord with Equality VIII 14 Complaints Arising in Friendships in Accord with Inequality

Book IX: Friendship

IX 1 Disputes Arising in Friendship and Their Resolution IX 2 Puzzles about the Demands of Different Friendships IX 3 Puzzles about Dissolving Friendships IX 4 Friendship and Self-love IX 5 Friendship and Goodwill IX 6 Friendship and Concord IX 7 Benefactors and Beneficiaries in Friendships IX 8 Puzzles about Self-Love, Good and Bad Self-love IX 9 Does a Happy Person Need Friends? IX 10 How Many Friends Should We Have? IX 11 Friends in Good Fortune and in Bad IX 12 Living Together

Book X: Pleasure, Happiness, and the Importance of Politics

X 1 How to Discuss Pleasure X 2 Disputes about Pleasure X 3 Pleasure Is a Good but Not the Good X 4 Pleasure as Unimpeded Activity X 5 Different Forms of Pleasure X 6 Happiness Reconsidered, Pleasant Amusements X 7 Happiness as Contemplation in Accord with Theoretical Wisdom X 8 Two Sorts of Happiness X 9 The Importance of Politics to Achieving Virtue and Happiness

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