Taking Life Seriously : A Study of the Argument of the Nicomachean Ethics

Table of Contents

• Contents 8
• Foreword 16
• Introduction 22
• 1 The Literary Problem and the Present Undertaking 22
• 2 Aristotle's Formalism 24
• 3 The Basic Question 25
• 4 The Author 28
• 1 What Is Best for People (I i–xii; 1094a1–1102a4) 30
• 1.1 The Idea of the Good (1094a1–1097b21) 30
• 1.11 General Introduction (I i–iii; 1094a1–1095a13) 30
• 1.12 Happiness as the Human Good (I iv–vi; 1095a13–1097a14) 43
• 1.13 The Good: Formal Requirements (1097a15–b21) 55
• 1.2 Rational Living (1097b21–1102a4 [I 6–12]) 59
• 1.21 The Definition of Happiness (1097b21–1098a20 [I 6]) 59
• 1.22 Methodological Caution (1098a20–b8 [I 7]) 73
• 1.23 Harmonization (I viii–xii; 1098b9–1102a4) 74
• 2 Reason in Action (I xiii–VI; 1102a5–1145a11) 89
• 2.1 The Soul (I xiii; 1102a5–1103a10) 90
• 2.11 Comment: Political Analogues 94
• 2.12 What We Call Virtue (1103a8–10) 95
• 2.2 Moral Virtue (II–V; 1103a14–1138b14) 96
• 2.21 Two Kinds of Virtue (1103a14–23) 96
• 2.22 Moral Virtue in General (II–III v; 1103a14–1115a4) 98
• 2.23 The System of the Virtues (II vii, III vi–IV; 1107a28–1108b10, 1115a4–1128b35) 155
• 2.24 Interlude: The Common Books (V–VII; 1129a1–1154b34) 172
• 2.25 Justice (V; 1129a1–1138b14) 175
• 2.3 The Good Mind (VI; 1138b18–1145a11) 215
• 2.31 The Duality of Wisdom (VI i–vii; 1138b18–1141b23) 220
• 2.32 The Anatomy of Good Sense (1141b8–1144b1) 240
• 2.33 The Value of Intellectual Virtue (1143b18–1144b16) 248
• 2.34 The Unity of Virtue (1144b17–1145a11) 253
• 3 The Pathology of Practical Reason (VII; 1145a15–1154b34) 257
• 3.1 The Anatomy of Wrongdoing (VII i–x; 1145a15–1152a36) 258
• 3.11 Weakness of Will (1145a35–1152a36) 260
• 3.2 The Snare of Pleasure (VII xi–xiv; 1152b1–1154b34) 271
• 3.21 The Literary Problem 272
• 3.22 The Defence of Pleasure 273
• 4 Love, Consciousness, and Society (VIII-IX; 1155a1–1172a15) 283
• 4.1 The Order of Treatment 288
• 4.2 Introduction (VIII i; 1155a3–b16) 290
• 4.21 Friendship as Virtue (1155a3–4, 28–31) 291
• 4.22 Friendship as Necessity (1155a4–28) 291
• 4.23 The Concept of Friendship (1155a32–b16 [VIII 2]) 291
• 4.3 True Friendship (VIII ii–viii; 1153b17–1159b24) 293
• 4.31 Anatomy of Friendship (VIII ii, iv–v; 1155b17–1156a5, 1156b33–1158a1) 293
• 4.32 The Basis of Friendship (VIII ii–v; 1155b17–1158a1) 294
• 4.4 Community (VIII ix–xii; 1159b25–1163a23) 298
• 4.41 Justice and Comradeship (VIII ix; 1159b25–1160a30) 299
• 4.42 Necessity and Cooperation (VIII x–xii; 1160a31–1162a33) 302
• 4.5 Friendship in the Real World (VIII xiii–IX iii; 1162a34–1165b36) 304
• 4.6 Love and Consciousness (IX iv–xii; 1166a–1172a15) 306
• 4.61 Self and Other (IX iv; 1166a1–b29) 308
• 4.62 Goodwill and Unanimity (IX v–vi; 1166b30–1167b16) 313
• 4.63 Friendship and Activity (IX vii–ix; 1167b17–1169b19) 314
• 4.7 Conclusion 324
• 5 The Worth of Pleasure (X i–v; 1172a19–1176a29) 326
• 5.1 Pleasure as Supervenient (1174b31–3) 331
• 5.2 The Evaluation of Pleasure (1175b24–1176a29) 334
• 5.3 Pleasure and Happiness 335
• 5.31 Pleasure and Lifetimes 335
• 5.32 Pleasure and Virtue 336
• 6 The Good Life and the Best Life: Outline of a Discourse (X vi–viii; 1176a30–1179a32) 343
• 6.1 Introduction (1176a30–b8) 345
• 6.2 Pastimes (1176b9–1177a11) 346
• 6.21 The Tastes of Tyrants (1176b12–24) 346
• 6.22 Recreation (1176b24–1177a6) 347
• 6.23 Slaves and Serious People (1177a6–11) 349
• 6.24 Leisure 351
• 6.3 Excursus: Leisure and Three Lives 352
• 6.4 Virtue (X vii–viii; 1177a12–1178b32) 354
• 6.41 The Highest Virtue (X vii; 1177a12–1178a8) 355
• 6.42 The Rest of Virtue (X viii; 1178a9–1179a32) 365
• 6.5 Peroration (1178b33–1179a16 [X 9]) 373
• 7 Postscript: The Transition to Politics (X ix; 1179a33–1181b23) 374
• Afterword 378
• Appendix: Aristotle's World 382
• Notes 388
• Glossary 456
• A 456
• B 457
• D 457
• E 457
• H 458
• K 458
• L 459
• M 459
• N 459
• O 459
• P 460
• S 460
• T 461
• References 462
• Index 468
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• B 470
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• D 471
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• F 472
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• I 473
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