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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)by: Aristotle  List Price: $12.00 Amazon.com's Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 170 EAN: 9780140449495 ISBN: 0140449493 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: March 30, 2004 Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: December 30, 2003 Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Of AristotleÂ’s works, few have had as lasting an influence on subsequent Western thought as The Nicomachean Ethics. In it, he argues that happiness consists in "activity of the soul in accordance with virtue," defining "virtue" as both moral (courage, generosity, and justice) and intellectual (knowledge, wisdom, and insight). Aristotle also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue and the state. Featuring a lucid translation, a new introduction, updated suggestions for further reading, and a chronology of AristotleÂ’s life and works, this is the authoritative edition of a seminal intellectual masterpiece. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Virtue Ethics ClassicI read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. I think Aristotle's ethics is his most seminal work in philosophy. In early 1960's virtue ethics came to fore. It is a retrieval of Aristotle. It has very close parallels to the ancient Chinese philosophy of Confucius and the modern philosophy espoused in the 1970's called Communitarianism. For Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, (EN) is about human life in an embodied state. Area of inquirery for EN is "good" this is his phenomenology. ... Read More Rating: - A Philosophy of Common SenseNamed for Aristotle's father, Nicomachus, this book lays out some very common sense ways of thinking about what is right and what is wrong. This book underlies much of St. Paul's writings (no, not that he plagiarized them, but Aristotle's ideas were part of the intellectual ground of his thought). The highest achievement for a human being is happiness, for this is something one desires for itself, not for what it can gain (consider the nonsense statement "Happiness can't buy money.") Aristotle ... Read More Rating:  - A Helpful Edition of a Classic WorkThere are a couple of features about this particular edition of Aristotle's "Ethics" (to be clear, I am referring to the 2004 edition published by Penguin Classics) that I think are praiseworthy and worthy of mention. As some of the other reviewers of this edition have pointed out, the introduction by Jonathan Barnes is most helpful in providing the reader with a sturdy foundation on which to stand while reading this work. At roughly 30 pages long, Barnes' introduction is the perfect length. It provides a ... Read More Rating: - The Nicomachean Ethics - - AristotolAn excellent book to get an understanding of this Greek philosopher's concept of "a good man" and the virtues he felt were required in an individual to be considered as "a good man". Also, it provides some insight into the affect of these Greek philosophic "virtues" from the period of about 300 BC as they predated the "morals and ethics" found in the biblical new testement of about 200 AD and the Koran of about 700 AD. Rating: - Early work of social scienceAristotle's Ethics by Penguin classics looks deceptively like a paperback novel. It is nothing of the kind, being a densely packed philosophical treatise on the nature of humankind and our relationships with others. The book, a translation of the Nichomachean Ethics and not Aristotle's earlier Eudemian Ethics, may seem slightly mistitled to a modern audience. It deals primarily with analysis of character and what good character is and is not. Discussion of ethical issues and moral judgements ... Read More 
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