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Aristotle's dialogue with Socrates : on the Nicomachean ethics

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Aristotle's dialogue with Socrates : on the Nicomachean ethics / Ronna Burger.

Author

Burger, Ronna, 1947-

Publication

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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viii, 309 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

On the Nicomachean ethics

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-297) and index.

Contents

Part I THE HUMAN GOOD -- The Final End and the Way to It -- From the Good to the Human Good -- Opinions about Happiness -- The Human Good and the Human Ergon -- Happiness in a Complete Life -- The Nonrational Psyche -- Part II THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE JUST -- Excellence of Character -- A Non-Socratic Account -- Habituation -- Ethical Virtue and the Measure of the Mean -- Responsibility and Nature -- Virtues and Vices -- The Beautiful as Telos of the Virtues -- Justice in the City and Justice in the Soul -- Part III RETURN TO THE GOOD -- Excellence of Thought -- The Pivot of the Argument of the Ethics -- The Rational Psyche -- Intellectual Virtues -- Phronesis, Sophia, and the Claim to Happiness -- Pleasure and the Discovery of Nature -- A New Beginning: From the Bestial to the Divine -- The Faction of Passion and Reason -- Pleasure by Nature and the Good -- Friendship and the Discovery of the Self -- Rational and Political Nature -- Perfect Friendship and Other Species -- Justice in Friendship -- The Friend as an Other Self -- Friendship, Eros, and Philosophy -- Happiness -- Pleasure Revisited -- The Theoretical Life -- The Legislative Art -- A Socratic Answer to a Socratic Question?

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