Aristoteles behoort tot de grootste filosofen aller tijden, wiens werken de westerse filosofie eeuwenlang hebben gevormd. Zijn onderzoek bestreek een breed scala aan onderwerpen, van logica en metafysica tot ethiek, politiek en esthetiek. Zijn nadruk op observatie en empirisch onderzoek, met name in de biologie, was baanbrekend. Aristoteles' filosofie is complex en blijft tot op heden discussie oproepen, wat zijn blijvende invloed op de intellectuele geschiedenis bewijst.
In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle examines the nature of happiness, which he defines as a specially good kind of life. He considers the nature of practical reasoning, friendship, and the role and importance of the moral virtues in the best life. This new edition features a revised translation and valuable new introduction and notes.
Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments.
An extended and revised edition of one of the best-selling Cambridge Texts.
Presents the author's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are the material. In this book, the author argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms.
Edited and Translated by D.M. Balme