Nicomachean Ethics - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Nicomachean Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicomachean Ethics - Overview
Nicomachean Ethics - General Ethics. PP Nic.+Eth.1094a Aristotle's ethics is often called teleological or goal-directed. According to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotelian Ethics: Encyclopedia - Aristotelian Ethics
Aristotle believed that ethical knowledge is not certain knowledge (like metaphysics and epistemology) but is general knowledge. Also, as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eudaimonia: Encyclopedia Ii - Eudaimonia - Greek Philosophy
Socrates' philosophy, as it is represented in Plato's early dialogues, contains two related claims about eudaimonia. The first is the str...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotelian Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotelian Ethics - Three Ethical Treatises
Three treatises of Aristotle's ethics survive today: Nicomachean Ethics, the most popular Eudemian Ethics Magna Moralia Each is believe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Courage: Encyclopedia - Courage
Courage is the ability to confront fear in the face of pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation. As a virtue, courage is covered extensi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia - Human
Humans or human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. Biologically, humans are classified as the mammalian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constitution: Encyclopedia - Constitution
A constitution is a system, often codified in a written document, which establishes the rules and principles by which an organization is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soul: Encyclopedia - Soul
The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — par...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia - Aristotle
Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bekker Numbers: Encyclopedia - Bekker Numbers
Bekker numbers are the page numbers used in the Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the complete works of Aristotle. They take their ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Action Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Action Philosophy
An action, as philosophers use the term, is a certain kind of thing a person can do. Throwing a baseball, which involves intention and c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue Ethics: Encyclopedia - Virtue Ethics
In philosophy, the phrase virtue ethics refers to ethical systems that focus primarily on what sort of person one should try to be. Thus,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia - Virtue
(Greek αρετη; Latin virtus) Virtue is moral excellence of a man or a woman. The word is derived from the Greek arete (αρετη). A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotelian Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotelian Ethics - Criticisms
Aristotle, more than Socrates or Plato, defends the existing mores of his time. Although he argues for many values which many of today's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotelian Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotelian Ethics - Influence On Later Thinkers
Aristotle was taught in Athens until 529 AD when the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I closed down non-Christian schools of philosophy. Arist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotelian Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotelian Ethics - Influences Of Earlier Greek Ethical Systems
Aristotle's ethics builds upon earlier Greek ethics, particularly that of Aristotle's teacher Plato and his teacher, Socrates. One import...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Energeia: Encyclopedia - Energeia
Energeia is an important Greek technical term in the works of Aristotle. The two components of his coinage indicate something being "in w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - People: Encyclopedia - People
People are humans and persons that interact as a society. They have thoughts and emotions. They work, play and originate from Earth, whil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Right: Encyclopedia - Right
A right is the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled or a thing to which one has a just claim. Rights serve as rules of inte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Books Of The Western World: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Books Of The Western World - The Works
Published in 54 volumes, The Great Books of the Western World covers topics including fiction, history, poetry, natural science, mathemat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Loeb Classical Library: Encyclopedia Ii - Loeb Classical Library - Volumes Published
(from [1]) A tip for readers: The listings of Loeb volumes at online bookstores vary considerably. If you want to buy a volume, it is pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Biology
Human - Anatomy and physiology. Main articles: Human anatomy, Human physical appearance & Human height Humans exhi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Philosophy - Historical Texts
List of publications in philosophy - Western philosophy. Plato, Charmides Plato, Lysis Plato, Laches Plato, Protagoras Plato, Euthyde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Intellectual Virtues: Encyclopedia Ii - Intellectual Virtues - Aristotle
Aristotle analyzed virtues into moral and intellectual virtues (dianoetic virtues, the Greek aretai dianoetikai). In the Posterior Analyt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Ethics In Rabbinic Literature
Hillel the elder formulated the Golden rule of Jewish ethics "What is painful to you, do not do unto others". (Talmud, tracate Shabbat 31...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Biography
Aristotle - Early life and studies at the Academy. Aristotle was born at Stageira, a colony of Andros on the Macedonian peninsula of Ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stock Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Stock Character - History
The study of the character is first begun (perhaps unintentionally) by Aristotle. In his exploration of how best to achieve happiness, Ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Biography
Aristotle - Early life and studies at the Academy. Aristotle was born at Stageira, a colony of Andros on the Macedonian peninsula of Ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Biology
Human - Anatomy and physiology. Main articles: Human anatomy, Human physical appearance, and Human height Human body types varies subst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Loeb Classical Library: Encyclopedia Ii - Loeb Classical Library - Volumes Published
(from [1]) A tip for readers: The listings of Loeb volumes at online bookstores vary considerably. If you want to buy a volume, it is pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - Capital Vices And Virtues
The seven capital vices or seven deadly sins suggest a classification of vices and were enumerated by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Faerie Queene: Encyclopedia Ii - The Faerie Queene - Allegorical Characters
Important allegorical figures include Una, who symbolizes the true Protestant religion; the evil Duessa, who represents Roman Catholicism...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timocracy: Encyclopedia Ii - Timocracy - Timocracy And Property
Solon introduced the ideas of timokratia as a graded oligarchy in his Solonian Constitution for Athens (early 6th century BC). His, the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Soul - Religious Views
Soul - Bahá'í beliefs. The Bahá'í Faith affirm that "the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Right: Encyclopedia Ii - Right - Legal Rights
In modern English and European systems of jurisprudence and law, a right is the legal or moral entitlement to do or refrain from doing so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theory Of Forms: Encyclopedia Ii - Theory Of Forms - Evidence Of Forms
The idea of Forms was explained or alluded to in several Platonic Dialogues, most notably the Republic. Various forms of evidence are giv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue Ethics - Virtue Ethics Contrasted With Deontology And Consequentialism
The methods of virtue ethics are in contrast to the dominant methods in ethical philosophy, which focus on actions. For example, both Kan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Biography
Aristotle - Early life and studies at the Academy. Aristotle was born at Stageira, a colony of Andros on the Macedonian peninsula of Ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. John's College U. S.: Encyclopedia Ii - St. John's College U. S. - History
St. John's College was chartered in 1784 and later began granting bachelor's degrees. The first act of the newly chartered school was the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - Constitution - Governmental Constitutions
Most commonly, the term constitution refers to a set of rules and principles that define the nature and extent of government. Most consti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Biology
Human - Anatomy and physiology. Main articles: Human anatomy, and Human physical appearance, and Human height,    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Perennialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Perennialism - Secular Perennialism
Secular perennialism is a relatively new philosophy dating from only the mid-19th century. It has been supported by Mortimer Adler and Ro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Spirit
Main articles: Spirituality, Religion, and Human nature Humans apply different approaches to attempt to answer fundamental questions abou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Culture
Main articles: Culture of human beings and Culture Culture is defined here as a set of distinctive material, intellectual, emotional, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Terminology
In general, the word "people" is a collective or plural term for any specific group of individual persons. However, when used to refer to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Methodology
Aristotle defines philosophy in terms of essence, saying that philosophy is "the science of the universal essence of that which is actual...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Mind
Main articles: Mind and Consciousness Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Critics
Aristotle has been criticised on several grounds. His analysis of procreation is frequently criticised on the grounds that it presuppose...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Loeb Classical Library: Encyclopedia Ii - Loeb Classical Library - Reception
Although some serious classicists spurn the Loebs (which have only a minimal apparatus criticus) as amateurish, and many non-classicists,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Soul - Etymologies
The current English word "soul" may have originated from Old English sawol, documented in 970 AD, which has possible etymological links w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Spirit
Humans apply different approaches to attempt to answer fundamental questions about topics like the nature of the universe (cosmology), it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Mind
Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. John's College U. S.: Encyclopedia Ii - St. John's College U. S. - Annapolis Campus
St. John's is located in the Historic Annapolis district, one block away from the Maryland State Capitol building. Its proximity to the U...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. John's College U. S.: Encyclopedia Ii - St. John's College U. S. - Santa Fe Campus
St. John's is located at the foot of Monte Sol, on the eastern edge of Santa Fe. It was opened in 1964 due to the increase in qualified a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. John's College U. S.: Encyclopedia Ii - St. John's College U. S. - Curriculum Details
St. John's College U. S. - The Great Books. The same set of Great Books is the basis of the curriculum at both campuses of St. John's C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. John's College U. S.: Encyclopedia Ii - St. John's College U. S. - Ranking And Reputation
In 1975, a St. John's graduate gave this description[13] of how a St. John's degree was received by other institutions: Bernard M. David...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. John's College U. S.: Encyclopedia Ii - St. John's College U. S. - Criticism And Controversy
St. John's curriculum has drawn criticism and inspired controversy since its inception. It went far beyond the then-existing Columbia Uni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. John's College U. S.: Encyclopedia Ii - St. John's College U. S. - Curriculum Overview
The program involves: Four years of literature and philosophy in seminar Four years of mathematics Three years of laboratory science Two...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Culture
Culture is defined here as a set of distinctive material, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual features of a social group, including ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Bibliography
Note: Bekker numbers are often used to uniquely identify passages of Aristotle. They are identified below where available. Aristotle - M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Bibliography
Note: Bekker numbers are often used to uniquely identify passages of Aristotle. They are identified below where available. Aristotle - M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Critics
Aristotle has been criticised on several grounds. His analysis of procreation is frequently criticised on the grounds that it presuppose...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Ethics
Although Aristotle wrote several works on ethics, the major one was the Nicomachean Ethics, which is considered one of Aristotle's greate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Metaphysics
Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes. Aristotle names four "causes" of things, but the word cause (Greek: αἰτἱα, aitia) is not us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Methodology
Aristotle defines philosophy in terms of essence, saying that philosophy is "the science of the universal essence of that which is actual...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Epistemology
Aristotle - Logic. Main article: Aristotelian logic For more details on this topic, see Non-Aristotelian logic. Aristotle "says th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - The Loss Of His Works
Though we know that Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises (Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold"), the originals have...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Faerie Queene: Encyclopedia Ii - The Faerie Queene - Politics And The Poem
The poem found political favour with Elizabeth I and was consequently very successful, to the extent of far overshadowing Spenser's other...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Ethics
Although Aristotle wrote several works on ethics, the major one was the Nicomachean Ethics, which is considered one of Aristotle's greate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Metaphysics
Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes. Aristotle names four "causes" of things, but the word cause (Greek: αἰτἱα, aitia) is not us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Epistemology
Aristotle - Logic. Main article: Aristotelian logic For more details on this topic, see Non-Aristotelian logic. Aristotle "says th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Animals And The Environment
The Biblical commands regarding the treatment of the brute (Ex. xx. 10; Lev. xxii. 28; Deut. xxv. 4; Prov. xii. 10) are amplified in rabb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Bibliography
Note: Bekker numbers are often used to uniquely identify passages of Aristotle. They are identified below where available. Aristotle - M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Critics
Aristotle has been criticised on several grounds. His analysis of procreation is frequently criticised on the grounds that it presuppose...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - Constitution - Constitutional Courts
The constitution is often protected by a certain legal body in each country with various names, such as supreme, constitutional or high c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constitution: Encyclopedia Ii - Constitution - History And Development
As far as we know from historical records, the code of justice issued by the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ca. 2300 BC is the earlies...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Books Of The Western World: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Books Of The Western World - History
The project got its start at the University of Chicago. University president Robert Hutchins collaborated with Mortimer Adler to develop ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Perennialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Perennialism - Religious Perennialism
Religious perennialism is the original form, developed first by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century in his work De Magistro, (The Teacher)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Epistemology
Aristotle - Logic. Main article: Aristotelian logic For more details on this topic, see Non-Aristotelian logic. Aristotle "says th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Ethics
Although Aristotle wrote several works on ethics, the major one was the Nicomachean Ethics, which is considered one of Aristotle's greate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Aristotle's Metaphysics
Aristotle - Aristotle's four causes. Aristotle names four "causes" of things, but the word cause (Greek: αἰτἱα, aitia) is not us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Soul - Science And The Soul
Western science and medicine do recognize the concept of soul or the idea of a soul entity, though many practitioners regard it as an ele...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Soul - Philosophical Views
The Ancient Greeks used the same word for 'alive' as for 'ensouled'. So the earliest surviving Western philosophical view might suggest t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soul: Encyclopedia Ii - Soul - Etymologies
The current English word "soul" may have originated from Old English sawol, documented in 970 AD, which has possible etymological links w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - The Four Virtues
The four classic Western "cardinal" virtues are: prudence/wisdom justice fortitude/courage temperance The four classic Islamic "cardina...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - The Unity Of The Virtues
Classically, some philosophers, most notably Plato and Aristotle, said that in order to pursue any of these virtues perfectly, one would ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristotle: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristotle - Methodology
Aristotle defines philosophy in terms of essence, saying that philosophy is "the science of the universal essence of that which is actual...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - Virtue And Vice
The opposite of a virtue is a vice. One way of organizing the vices is as the corruption of the virtues. Thus the cardinal vices would be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Books Of The Western World: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Books Of The Western World - Second Edition
In 1990 a second edition of the Great Books of the Western World was published, this time with updated translations and six more volumes ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Terminology
In general, the word "people" is a collective or plural term for any specific group of individual persons. However, when used to refer to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Peace And Hatred
Peace is everywhere recommended, and urged as the highest boon of man (Midrash Numbers Rabbah xi.; Talmud Pesachim i. 1.) Hatred, quarrel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Charity
The Jewish idea of righteousness ("tzedakah") includes benevolence and charity. The owner of property has no right to withhold from the p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Truth And Peace
"The first question asked at the Last Judgment is whether one has dealt justly with his neighbor" (Talmud, tractate Shabbat 31a). "A good...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Sanctification Of God's Name
The idea of God's holiness became in rabbinical ethics one of the most powerful incentives to pure and noble conduct. "Thou shalt love th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Philosophy - Twentieth-century Philosophy
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy [ A ] G.E. Moore, "A Defence of Common Sense" [ A ] Edmund Gettier, "Is Justified True Bel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Culture
Culture is defined here as a set of distinctive material, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual features of a social group, including ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Loeb Classical Library: Encyclopedia Ii - Loeb Classical Library - Reception
Although some serious classicists spurn the Loebs (which have only a minimal apparatus criticus) as amateurish, and many non-classicists,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Justice
Social ethics is defined by Rabbi Simeon ben Gamaliel's words: "The world rests on three things: justice, truth, and peace" (Avot 1:18). ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Prophetic Ethics
The Biblical prophets exhort all people to lead a righteous life. The ritual elements and sacerdotal institutions incidental to Israel's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Mind
Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Ethics - Altruistic Virtues
Honesty and truthfulness are absolutely prerequisite. Stealing, flattery, falsehood, perjury and false swearing, oppression, even if only...   » Read the article