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Title: The Ethics of Aristotle
Author: Aristotle
Release date: July 1, 2005 [eBook #8438]
Most recently updated: March 27, 2021
Language: English
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The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
By Aristotle
Introduction by J. A. Smith
Contents
INTRODUCTION
ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS
BOOK IV
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
The _Ethics_ of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his
_Politics_ is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject.
This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author's whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The two parts of …