Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics': A Reader's Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826485557)

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, based on lectures that he gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, is one of the most significant works of moral philosophy ever written. Aristotle, though of course influenced by the works of Plato, diverges sharply from his predecessor by making the practice, rather than the possession, of virtue the key to human happiness. By converting ethics from a theoretical to a practical science, and by introducing psychology into his study of behaviour, Aristotle both widened the field of moral philosophy and simultaneously made it more accessible to anyone who seeks an understanding of human nature. The theory of 'Virtue Ethics' Aristotle put forward still continues to be a major position of ethical thought to this day, his influence being strongly present in the work of Elizabeth Anscombe, Phillipa Foot and Alisdair McIntyre.

Author: Christopher Warne
ISBN-10: 0826485553
ISBN-13: 9780826485557
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2006
Pages: 166
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.56w x 0.51d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 3