Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction

Uncovering Aristotle's motivations and basic views while paying careful attention to his arguments, this introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle's great masterpiece of moral philosophy, offers a thorough examination of the entire work. The chapter on friendship captures Aristotle's doctrine with clarity and insight, and Michael Pakaluk develops 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.

Author: Michael Pakaluk
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/19/2005
Series: Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.3lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.10w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780521817424