Specifically focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from Aristotle’s ethics.
This volume builds on a recent revival of interest in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, which offers an invaluable complement to the Nicomachean Ethics in the study of the development of Aristotle's ethical ideas. It brings together a series of new studies by leading scholars covering the main points of inquiry raised by the relationship between the two works, exploring their continuities and divergences. At the same time, it showcases a variety of approaches to and perspectives on the main questions posed by Aristotle’s ethical thought.
Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethicsis offered as a contribution to long-standing debates over Aristotle's ethical thinking, as well as an inspiration for new approaches, which take both of his surviving ethical treatises seriously. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient philosophy and ethics, particularly Aristotle’s two ethics.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Aristotle’s Two Ethics
Chapter 2. The Preambles to the Ethics
Chapter 3. The Ergon Argument in the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics
Chapter 4. Pleasure and Pain in the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Definitions of Moral Virtue
Chapter 5. Voluntariness of Character States in Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics
Chapter 6. Decision in the Eudemian Ethics
Chapter 7. Justice in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics
Chapter 8. Sophia in the Eudemian Ethics
Chapter 9. Neither Virtue nor Vice: Akratic and Enkratic Values in and beyond the Eudemian Ethics
Chapter 10. Two Kinds of Pleasure (and Pain) in Aristotle’s Ethics
Chapter 12. The Wild and the Good: Conditions for Virtue in the Eudemian Ethics