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"One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy"

Previously published as Ethics, Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics addresses the question of how to live well and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. Here Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness, and argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue', including moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. Aristotle's work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters.

This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by J.A.K. Thomson with revisions and notes by Hugh Tredennick, and an introduction and bibliography by Jonathan Barnes.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Aristotle was born in 384BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens at the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and some time later became tutor to Alexander the Great. On Alexander's succession to the throne of Macedonia in 336, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum. After Alexander's death he was driven out of Athens and fled to Chalcis in Euboea where he died in 322. His writings profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; 1st edition (March 30, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140449493
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140449495
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1420L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 6 x 1.25 inches

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Aristotle (/ˈærɪˌstɒtəl/; Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης [aristotélɛːs], Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great starting from 343 BC. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Aristotle was the first genuine scientist in history ... [and] every scientist is in his debt."
Teaching Alexander the Great gave Aristotle many opportunities and an abundance of supplies. He established a library in the Lyceum which aided in the production of many of his hundreds of books. The fact that Aristotle was a pupil of Plato contributed to his former views of Platonism, but, following Plato's death, Aristotle immersed himself in empirical studies and shifted from Platonism to empiricism. He believed all peoples' concepts and all of their knowledge was ultimately based on perception. Aristotle's views on natural sciences represent the groundwork underlying many of his works.
Aristotle's views on physical science profoundly shaped medieval scholarship. Their influence extended into the Renaissance and were not replaced systematically until the Enlightenment and theories such as classical mechanics. Some of Aristotle's zoological observations, such as on the hectocotyl (reproductive) arm of the octopus, were not confirmed or refuted until the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.
In metaphysics, Aristotelianism profoundly influenced Judeo-Islamic philosophical and theological thought during the Middle Ages and continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. Aristotle was well known among medieval Muslim intellectuals and revered as "The First Teacher" (Arabic: المعلم الأول‎).
His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues – Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold" – it is thought that only around a third of his original output has survived.
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Hardback Edition: Unreadable photocopy of another book

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I purchased the hardback edition.

The good: The outside of the book is very nice and the binding is high quality.

The bad: The letter (when readable at all) is ugly and difficult to read. The pages appear to be photocopies of another book and it REALLY shows.

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Great translation

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I'm no Aristotle scholar and I know even less about Greek, so this is a lay person's review of this translation. I found this translation very easy to read. There are copious footnotes, most of which point out cross references that Aristotle throws ("as we showed above") around as well as other works that Aristotle quotes (e.g. Homer). Obviously something like that is extremely helpful. There are 10 short appendices giving a few words on several different pertinent topics. It was a great version for me, and I would certainly recommend it to anyone else looking for a good translation of the Ethics.

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I like this version of the Ethics very much. The writing is clear, the chapters are subcategorized with lovely italic headlines that tell you where you're going in that particular chunk of text, and the type is readable. The footnotes are included on each page, rather than all at the end (a very considerate service to the reader; I wish every publisher would please do that). All in all, I'm very happy I chose this translation. I really can't complain, but I wish all publishers would make the margins from the edge of the page to the text a bit wider for annotating. This would be true for any academic text but especially a philosophical one.

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The invention of the golden mean - A tough read

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Written in the 4th century BC, "The Nicomachean Ethics" by Aristotle studies the pursuit of happiness and is an exploration into the characteristics of a good man. In other words, how do we live successful lives, what makes somebody a good person and why should happiness be our goal. This work is famous for Aristotle’s introduction of the “golden mean” and has had a major influence on the ethics amongst others in the West up to this day.

After 2,500 years, I have nothing new to add other than that I am glad I read it, but do not plan to do so again. As with most of his writings, Aristotle is hard going at best of times and requires concentration and perseverance. “The Nicomachean Ethics” is no exception. Especially the first part, which explains the golden mean for an endless list of virtues often felt as a Sisyphean task to complete. The second part focusing on happiness, pleasure and friendship is more readable. I could only read the book piecemeal and in combination with some great on-line lectures and podcasts summarising Aristotle’s thinking in a clear way.

In summary, Aristotle’s “The Nicomachean Ethics” is one of the most influential books in Western development, but a very hard read. It is therefore probably only digestible to philosophy students or readers with an obsession for the classics and classical philosophy.

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One of the founding books of Western Thought yet not quite what one might have expected: it is not in its ten books a Greek Ten Commandments of what to do and what not to do, ranging as it does from Friendship - for the Facebook generation - and Happiness, to the distinction between Practical Wisdom and Knowledge. This unacknowledged century old translation has the benefit of thirty pages of notes, which in their obscurity need their own notes. The cover photo is however attractive and as always a nice, modestly priced, edition from Dover.

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Of course the book is one of the most influential of all time, but my penguin copy had the pages of the index bound through. It could not have been sold in a shop in this condition. I use the index a lot and will now have to buy another copy.

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