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This is an engaging and accessible introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle's great masterpiece of moral philosophy. Michael Pakaluk offers a thorough and lucid examination of the entire work, uncovering Aristotle's motivations and basic views while paying careful attention to his arguments. The chapter on friendship captures Aristotle's doctrine with clarity and insight, and Pakaluk gives original and compelling interpretations of the Function Argument, the Doctrine of the Mean, courage and other character virtues, Akrasia, and the two treatments of pleasure. There is also a useful section on how to read an Aristotelian text. This book will be invaluable for all student readers encountering one of the most important and influential works of Western philosophy.

General ethics --- Aristotle --- Ethics, Ancient. --- Morale ancienne --- Aristotle. --- Ethics --- Ethics, Ancient --- Ancient ethics --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Aristotle. - Nicomachean ethics.

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Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Each essay focuses on a single philosopher, school of philosophers, or philosophical era. The accounts examine and compare Aristotle's views and those of his heirs and also offer a reception history of the ethics, dealing with matters such as the availability and circulation of Aristotle's texts during the periods in question. The resulting volume will be a valuable source of information and arguments for anyone working in the history of ethics.

Ethics, Ancient. --- Morale ancienne --- Aristotle. --- Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle). --- Aristote, --- Morale --- Aristote --- Morale. --- Ethics, Ancient --- Ancient ethics --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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"This book casts new light on Epicurus' socio-political philosophy through a careful analysis of his arguments. It also shows how the ideal of an 'unnoticed life' was received during the later history of Epicureanism and how it occasionally occurs in ancient Latin poetry."--Jacket.

Epicureans (Greek philosophy) --- Conduct of life. --- Ethics, Ancient. --- Epicuriens --- Morale pratique --- Morale ancienne --- Epicurus --- Solitude. --- Ethics --- Epicurisme --- Praktische filosofie --- Receptie. --- Morale ancienne. --- Morale pratique. --- Morale --- Épicuriens. --- Ethics. --- Ethics, Greek --- Ancient ethics --- Seclusion --- Loneliness --- Privacy --- Ethics, Practical --- Morals --- Personal conduct --- Philosophical counseling --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ἐπίκουρος --- Epikouros --- Epikuros --- Ėpikur --- Epiḳoros --- Epicuro --- Abīqūr --- Yibijiulu --- Epicure --- Epʻikʻurosŭ --- Ethics - Greece. --- Épicuriens.

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Reflecting the relatively recent high level of scholarly interest in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics (EE), each paper in this collection is concerned first and foremost to understand the arguments from the EE it examines in terms of that work alone. The papers, by David Charles, Christopher Rowe, M.M. McCabe, Jennifer Whiting, and Friedemann Buddensiek, focus variously on the topics of the voluntary, friendship and luck, only drawing on other texts in the service of illuminating the EE. The result is a volume containing novel, at times even conflicting, readings of questions central to understanding this important text and Aristotle's ethics in general. '...each of the five essays targets an important but relatively circumscribed issue, and together they should convince anyone of the desirability of fresh and serious investigation of the Eudemian Ethics.' Daniel P. Maher, Assumption College

Ethics, Ancient --- Morale ancienne --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Aristotle. --- Ethics --- Aristotle --- Aristotle. Eudemian ethics -- Congresses. --- Ethics -- Congresses. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Congrès --- Aristoteles. --- PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy --- Ethics - Congresses --- Aristotle - Eudemian ethics - Congresses --- Aristotle - Eudemian ethics

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A volume which explores in detail Seneca's 'De Beneficiis'. Divided into three sections, it looks at the historical and philosophical context of the work, its relation to Seneca's other texts, and concludes with a detailed synopsis of each book, accompanied by notes in commentary form.

Ethics, Ancient. --- Conduct of life --- Benevolence --- Morale ancienne --- Morale pratique --- Bienveillance --- Early works to 1800. --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, --- Criticism, Textual. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Society in literature. --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus --- Seneca --- Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, --- Seneca, Annaeus, --- Seneca, --- Seneca, L. A. --- Seneca, Lucio Anneo, --- Seneka, --- Seneka, L. Annėĭ, --- Sénèque, --- סנקא, לוציוס אנאוס --- Pseudo-Seneca