The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

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 Ethicsilluminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics andstudents new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays bydistinguished international scholars.* * The structure of the book mirrors the organization of theNichomachean Ethics itself.* Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, thedistinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntarinessself-control, and pleasure.

Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgment ixAbbreviations xIntroduction 1Richard Kraut1 Aristotle's Ethical Treatises 12Chris Bobonich2 Human Good and Human Function 37Gavin Lawrence3 How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle's Method 76Richard Kraut4 The Central Doctrine of the Mean 96Rosalind Hursthouse5 Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine 116Gabriel Richardson Lear6 Aristotle on the Voluntary 137Susan Sauvé Meyer7 Aristotle on Greatness of Soul 158Roger Crisp8 Aristotle's Justice 179Charles M. Young9 Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought 198C. D. C. Reeve10 The Practical Syllogism 218Paula Gottlieb11 Acrasia and Self-control 234A. W. Price12 Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle's Ethics 255Dorothea Frede13 The Nicomachean Account of Philia 276Jennifer Whiting14 Aristotle's Political Ethics 305Malcolm Schofield15 Aquinas, Natural Law, and Aristotelian Eudaimonism 323T. H. Irwin16 Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics 342Sarah BroadieIndex of Passages from Aristotle 362General Index 377