CONTENTS
THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
BOOK I. The Aim of Man
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Definition of the good
Primacy of statecraft
Two observations on the study of ethics
The good as happiness
Conflicting views of happiness
Criticism of the Platonic doctrine of archetypes
Functional definition of man’s highest good
Confirmation by popular beliefs
Sources of happiness
Happiness and the vicissitudes of fortune
Derivation of the two kinds of human excellence
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BOOK II. Moral Virtue
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How moral virtue is acquired
On right method
Pleasure and pain as tests of virtue
Virtue and virtuous action
The genus of moral virtue
Differentia of moral virtue: doctrine of the mean
Species of the moral mean
Various relations of extremes and mean
Difficulties of attaining the mean
JBOOK III. The Will
Willing and unwilling action
Purposive choice
Deliberation
Wish
Responsibility for both good and evil
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¥ BOOK IV. Particular Virtues
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ii. Aristocratic pride
IBOOK VI. The Intellectual Virtues
i. Introduction
ii. Intellectual virtue distinguished from moral
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