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Terence Irwin examines Aristotle's three ethical works-the Magna Moralia, the Eudemian Ethics, and the Nicomachean Ethics. This book is the first in English to study all three texts in detail and compare them systematically. Aristotle's Ethical Works argues that we can trace a development in his thought by analysing these texts.
The main elements of Aristotle's moral philosophy are shown to be common to all three works, but their exposition and defence become clearer and more convincing in his later discussions. While the Nicomachean Ethics is the clearest account of Aristotle's ethics, we can understand its position better by seeing how Aristotle arrived at it.
Volume I contains the Greek text with a facing English translation. Volume II contains detailed notes on the text. Volume III contains essays on literary, historical, and philosophical questions abut the three ethical works.
The essays can be understood without knowledge of Greek. Some of the notes refer to details of the Greek text, but the main exposition and discussion are accessible to readers without Greek. The Notes are keyed to lemmata in English, and Greek terms used in the Notes are all transliterated.
This is the first English commentary on the Greek text of the Eudemian Ethics and Magna Moralia, as well as the first work in English to examine in detail the questions about the authorship of the Magna Moralia. The conclusion, that this is Aristotle's first work on ethics, is defended throughout the Notes and Essays. The Notes on the Nicomachean Ethics also provide the first English commentary on the Greek text for over a century.
The Essays discuss questions about the three ethical works that are more suitable for continuous treatment. Some essays deal with the composition, order, and integrity of the three ethical works. Others argue for the authenticity of the Magna Moralia. Others discuss philosophical questions that arise in all three works.
Contents
CONTENTS OF VOLUME III 1: Text and Manuscripts 2: The Three Ethics 3: The Common Books 4: The Author, Date, and Origin of the Magna Moralia 5: Socrates in the Three Ethics 6: The Three Ethics and Plato's Later Dialogues 7: Method 8: The Introduction of Happiness and the Good 9: The Idea of the Good 10: The Complete Good 11: Function, Human Function, and the Account of the Good 12: The complete good and the complete life 13: Virtues and the soul 14: The Virtues of Character and the Doctrine of the Mean 15: Virtues of Character: Table and Lists 16: Voluntary action, election, responsibility 17: Bravery 18: Temperance 19: Mildness 20: Generosity 21: Magnanimity 22: Magnificence 23: Virtues of Social Life 24: Nameless Virtues and Vices 25: The Fine, the Mean, and the Virtues 26: Justice 27: Disorder and Reordering in the Book on Justice 28: Conclusions on the Virtues of Character 29: Election in Virtue of Character 30: Verbal Adjectives, Gerundives, and 'Ought' 31: Practical Reason 32: Intelligence 33: The Relation of Intelligence to Virtue of Character 34: Intelligence and Deliberation in Virtue of Character 35: Intellectual Virtues: MM and CB 36: Incontinence 37: Pleasure and Happiness 38: The Magna Moralia and the Common Books 39: Friendship 40: Questions about EE VIII 41: Virtue and Fortune in EE 42: Fine-and-Goodness: EE viii 3 43: The Place of Contemplation in the Human Good 44: Inexactness 45: Ethics, Politics, and Political Science 46: Conclusions on the Magna Moralia 47: The Common Books: Some Conclusions 48: The Order of the Three Ethics: Conclusions
