Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction

Uncovering Aristotle's motivations and basic views while paying careful attention to his arguments, this introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle's great masterpiece of moral philosophy, offers a thorough examination of the entire work. The chapter on friendship captures Aristotle's doctrine with clarity and insight, and Michael Pakaluk develops original and compelling interpretations of the Function Argument, the Doctrine of the Mean, courage and other character virtues, Akrasia, and the two treatments of pleasure.

Author: Michael Pakaluk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.10w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780521817424

About the Author
Pakaluk, Michael: - Michael Pakaluk is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clark University, Massachusetts. He has published extensively in the history of philosophy, including Plato, Aquinas, Hume, and Reid, as well as in political philosophy.