| Author: | Aristotle |
| Translation: | Michael Woods |
| Editor: | Michael Woods |
| Origin: | UK |
| Scientific editor: | J. L. Ackrill, Lindsay Judson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press - Clarendon Press |
| ISBN: | 9780198240204 |
| Edition number: | 2nd edition |
| Publication year: | 1992 |
| First edition: | 1982 |
| Dimensions: | 13.6x21.6 |
| Pages: | 212 |
| Location: | 11Ε |
| Series: | Clarendon Aristotle Series |
It has long been recognized that anyone seriously interested in Aristotle's moral philosophy will need to take full account of the Eudemian Ethics, a work still gravely neglected in favor of the better-known Nicomachean Ethics. The relation between the two continues to be the subject of lively scholarly debate. This volume contains a translation of three of the eight books of the Eudemian Ethics--those that are likely to be of most interest to philosophers today--together with a philosophical commentary on these books from a contemporary point of view. Intended to serve the needs of readers of Aristotle without a knowledge of Greek, this book's aim in translation has been to give as accurate an idea as possible of Aristotle's text; but for the benefit of those who are able to read the original, there are notes on the Greek text used for problematic passages