Aristotele si colloca tra i più grandi filosofi di tutti i tempi, le cui opere hanno plasmato il pensiero occidentale per secoli. La sua ricerca si estese a una vasta gamma di discipline, dalla logica e metafisica all'etica, alla teoria politica e all'estetica. Il suo approccio basato sull'osservazione e sulla ricerca empirica, specialmente in biologia, fu pionieristico. La filosofia di Aristotele, complessa e oggetto di continui dibattiti interpretativi, stimola ancora oggi l'interesse accademico, testimoniando la sua duratura importanza.
In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle examines the nature of happiness, which he defines as a specially good kind of life. He considers the nature of practical reasoning, friendship, and the role and importance of the moral virtues in the best life. This new edition features a revised translation and valuable new introduction and notes.
Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments.
An extended and revised edition of one of the best-selling Cambridge Texts.
Presents the author's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are the material. In this book, the author argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms.
Edited and Translated by D.M. Balme