Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Translated With Introduction and Notes By C. D. C. Reeve DSHPC006-FM-pi-lvi.indd Page 1 08/01/14 10:57 AM user /27A/DSHPC006-Nicomachean/work/Chapters/FM Aristotle N i c o m a c h e a n E t h i c s DSHPC006-FM-pi-lvi.indd Page 2 08/01/14 10:57 AM user /27A/DSHPC006-Nicomachean/work/Chapters/FM DSHPC006-FM-pi-lvi.indd Page 3 08/01/14 10:57 AM user /27A/DSHPC006-Nicomachean/work/Chapters/FM Aristotle N i c o m a c h e a n E t h i c s Translated With Introduction and Notes By C. D. C. Reeve Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Indianapolis/Cambridge DSHPC006-FM-pi-lvi.indd Page 4 10/01/14 4:07 PM user /27A/DSHPC006-Nicomachean/work/Chapters/FM Copyright © 2014 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 17 16 15 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 For further information, please address Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. P.O. Box 44937 Indianapolis, Indiana 46244-0937 www.hackettpublishing.com Composition by Aptara, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aristotle. [Nicomachean ethics. English] Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle; translated with introduction and notes by C.D.C. Reeve. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-62466-117-4 (pbk.)—ISBN 978-1-62466-118-1 (cloth) 1. Ethics. I. Reeve, C. D. C., 1948 translator. II. Title. B430.A5R438 2014 171'.3—dc23 2013037301 Adobe PDF ebook ISBN: 978-1-62466-119-8 DSHPC006-FM-pi-lvi.indd Page 5 08/01/14 10:57 AM user /27A/DSHPC006-Nicomachean/work/Chapters/FM For Ela & Pavlos toË kaloË ßneka DSHPC006-FM-pi-lvi.indd Page 6 08/01/14 10:57 AM user /27A/DSHPC006-Nicomachean/work/Chapters/FM DSHPC006-FM-pi-lvi.indd Page 7 08/01/14 10:57 AM user /27A/DSHPC006-Nicomachean/work/Chapters/FM Contents Preface xiii Abbreviations xvi Introduction xix Nicomachean Ethics Book I: HappIness and tHe soul I 1 Goods and Ends 2 I 2 Ethics as a Sort of Politics 2 I 3 The Level of Exactness to Be Expected in Ethics 3 I 4 Different Views about Happiness 4 I 5 Three Types of Lives 5 I 6 Criticisms of Plato on the Good 6 I 7 Completeness and Self-Sufficiency of Ends and the Function Argument 8 I 8 The Function Argument Defended by Appeal to Things Said about Happiness 11 I 9 How Happiness Is Achieved 13 I 10 Should We Call No Human Being Happy until He is Dead? 14 I 11 How What Happens after Death Affects Happiness 17 I 12 Is Happiness Something Praiseworthy or Something Estimable? 17 I 13 Remarks on the Soul 18 vii DSHPC006-FM-pi-lvi.indd Page 8 08/01/14 10:57 AM user /27A/DSHPC006-Nicomachean/work/Chapters/FM Contents Book II: VIrtue of CHaraCter II 1 How Virtue Is Acquired, the Importance of Habit 21 II 2 Ethics as a Practical Science 22 II 3 Pleasure and Pain 23 II 4 Virtuous Action and Virtuous Character 25 II 5 Virtue of Character Defined: Its Genus 26 II 6 Virtue of Character Defined: Its Differentia—the Mean 27 II 7 The Individual Virtues of Character Introduced 29 II 8 Means and Extremes 32 II 9 Achieving the Mean 33 Book III: aCtIon and tHe VIrtues of CHaraCter III 1 Voluntary and Involuntary Action 35 III 2 Deliberate Choice 38 III 3 Deliberation 40 III 4 Wish 42 III 5 Responsibility for Character and How the End Appears 43 III 6 Courage 46 III 7 Courage 47 III 8 Courage-Like Conditions 49 III 9 Courage and Feelings of Pleasure and Pain 51 III 10 Temperance 52 III 11 Temperance 54 III 12 Intemperance 55 Book IV: VIrtues of CHaraCter IV 1 Generosity 57 IV 2 Magnificence 61 IV 3 Greatness of Soul 64 viii DSHPC006-FM-pi-lvi.indd Page 9 08/01/14 10:57 AM user /27A/DSHPC006-Nicomachean/work/Chapters/FM Contents IV 4 Nameless Virtue Concerned with Small Honors 68 IV 5 Mild-Mannerdness 69 IV 6 Nameless Virtue between Being Ingratiating and Being Disagreeable 71 IV 7 Truthfulness 72 IV 8 Wit 74 IV 9 Shame 75 Book V: JustICe V 1 Types of Justice 77 V 2 Special Justice and General Justice 79 V 3 Justice in Allocations (Distributive Justice) 81 V 4 Rectificatory Justice 82 V 5 Justice in Exchange 84 V 6 Political Justice 87 V 7 Natural Justice and Legal Justice 89 V 8 Voluntary and Involuntary Justice and Injustice 90 V 9 Puzzles about Doing and Suffering Unjust Actions 92 V 10 Decency 95 V 11 Doing Injustice to Oneself 96 Book VI: VIrtues of tHougHt VI 1 Correct Reason and the Virtues of Thought 98 VI 2 The Control of Action and Truth, Deliberate Choice 99 VI 3 Scientific Knowledge 100 VI 4 Craft Knowledge 101 VI 5 Practical Wisdom 101 VI 6 Understanding 103 VI 7 Theoretical Wisdom and Practical Wisdom 103 VI 8 Practical Wisdom and Politics 105 ix