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Aristotle's Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (15772 words) |
 | Only the Nicomachean Ethics discusses the close relationship between ethical inquiry and politics; only the Nicomachean Ethics examines Solon's dictum that no man should be counted happy until he is dead; and only the Nicomachean Ethics gives a series of arguments for the superiority of the philosophical life to the political life. |
| He insists that ethics is not a theoretical discipline: we are asking what the good for human beings is not simply because we want to have knowledge, but because we will be better able to achieve our good if we develop a fuller understanding of what it is to flourish. |
| Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics is identical to Book VI of the Eudemian Ethics; for unknown reasons, the editor of the former decided to include within it both the treatment of pleasure that is unique to that work (X.1-5) and the study that is common to both treatises (VII.11-14). |
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Aristotle on Pleasure (442 words) |
| Ethics attempts to formulate general principles whose application is dependent upon the circumstances at hand (i.e., initial conditions). |
| Aristotle's Ethics: Aristotle's ethics is a common sense ethics built on naturalism and self-realization. |
| Aristotle's Ethics: An excellent discussion from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Aristotle's ethics drawn from the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics by Richard Kraut. |
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