Lanterna Rally

Author: Thomas Marshall

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 603

ISBN-13: 9781440093692

Excerpt from Aristotle's Theory of Conduct In the following pages an attempt is made to present Aristotle's Ethics in a readable shape. It is not, and cannot be made, a popular book. It has not the charm of style and the dramatic vivacity of the Platonic dialogues which fascinate the reader and carry him, even in a translation, through many pages of not always profitable dialectics, but its subject is of universal interest and touches human nature on almost every side. Courage, self-restraint, liberality, behaviour in society, friendship and happiness - these are matters on which it is well worth anybody's while to know the views of a man of Aristotle's attainments. The Ethics is, however, something more than a volume of independent essays on moral philosophy; it is a systematic treatise on that subject forming an integral part of a comprehensive system in which logic, physics, psychology, biology, as well as the philosophy relating to man are embraced. Conduct in life is made to fall into its place as a part of Aristotle's encyclopædia of the sciences, and its principles are shown to depend upon, and are constantly referred back to, those on which organic life and mind depend. But it is chiefly as a practical treatise or manual of daily conduct that the Ethics may be read with profit. In it motives are analysed and actions described and defined with great skill and clearness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.