The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
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The Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 8 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Synopsis

In the Nichomachean Ethics so called after their first editor, Aristotles son NicomachusAristotle sets out to discover the good life for man, the life of happiness. He discourses on happiness, including the supreme happiness, possible only for a few, and a secondary kind of happiness, available in a virtuous life of political activity and public munificence.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

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Goodreads review by Glenn

Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle postulates the highest human good is eudaimonia or what is loosely translated into English as happiness. And a substantial component in the path to such human happiness is acting with the appropriate virtues over the course of an entire lifetime. The details of th......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu

O carte fundamentală. Am ales doar una dintre problemele discutate de Stagirit, fericirea. Dacă omul vrea să atingă fericirea trebuie să-i urmeze pe zei. Numai zeul e fericit şi asta întrucît existenţa divinității se rezumă la purul exerciţiu contemplativ. A filosofa înseamnă a încerca să devii asemă......more

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