Lanterna Rally

Author: Robert Williams

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781330257494

Excerpt from The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle: Newly Translated Into English Not only do the Nicomachean Ethics lie almost at the threshold of Moral Philosophy, but they have, perhaps, more in common with modern thought than any other among the treatises of Aristotle of equal length and importance. The whole of the eighth and ninth books, and, with them, the fourth, the last half of the third, and a considerable portion of the first, may be read without any previous knowledge of Greek Philosophy, and will be found intelligible. The discussion of the physical basis of certain forms of depravity apparently moral, the casuistical determination of the degrees of responsibility, and the treatment of the question of education, are by no means the only points that occur which have in the present day a great interest of their own, and on which it is as well to hear what any great thinker has advanced. And, lastly, the Nicomachean Ethics are of special value as being a brief and methodical system of Moral Philosophy, instead of a desultory and unconnected discussion of some one question in a great subject. 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.