Jonathan Barnes
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Very short introductions volume 32
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile Measure
1110L
Summary
"Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics, and his ideas about art and poetry, placing his teachings in their historical context."--Publisher description.
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"Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, based on lectures that he gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavour. It is soundly located within a philosophical tradition, but its argument differs from those of Plato and Socrates in its emphasis on the exercise - as opposed to the mere possession - of virtue as the key to...