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"One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy"

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Widely considered to be one of the most important works written on philosophy, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is separated... Read Full Overview

Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of the Irwin Nicomachean Ethics features a revised translation (with little editorial intervention), expanded notes (including a summary of the argument of each chapter), an expanded Introduction, and a revised... Read Full Overview

Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of the Irwin Nicomachean Ethics features a revised translation (with little editorial intervention), expanded notes (including a summary of the argument of each chapter), an expanded Introduction, and a revised... Read Full Overview

A new translation of one of the most important philosophical works of all time

A student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is one of the towering figures in Western thought. A brilliant thinker with wide-ranging interests, he wrote important works in physics, biology, poetry, politics, morality, metaphysics, and ethics.
In the... Read Full Overview

Antiquity's most influential account of life's Supreme Good.

Figura capital del pensamiento filos?fico de Grecia junto con Plat?n, su maestro, Arist?teles (384-322 a.C.) fue autor de una vasta obra que abarc? desde la l?gica y la metaf?sica a la biolog?a y las ciencias naturales, pasando por la ret?rica, la po?tica, la pol?tica y la ?tica... Read Full Overview

Tout art et toute investigation, et pareillement toute action et tout choix tendent vers quelque bien, a ce qu'il semble. Aussi a-t-on declare avec raison que le Bien est ce a quoi toutes choses tendent. Mais on observe, en fait, une certaine difference entre les fins: les unes... Read Full Overview

The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. It is widely considered one of the most important historical philosophical works, and had an important impact upon the European Middle Ages, becoming one of the core works of medieval... Read Full Overview

The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. The title is... Read Full Overview

This work presents the Nicomachean Ethics in a fresh English translation by Christopher Rowe that strives to be meticulously accurate yet also accessible. The translation is accompanied by Sarah Broadie's detailed line-by-line commentary, which brings out the subtlety of Aristotle's... Read Full Overview