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Nicomachean ethics describes aristotle's pathway to maximize the happiness/living well/flourishing (eudaimonia) of an individual. Book x wraps the investigation up and transitions into a politics informed by these ethics. Great value and was better th... Read More
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Irwin the translator says in the into that this version is specifically for the serious student not the person trying to get a general feeling for the work
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The qualities that maximize eudaimonia are then inductively reasoned back to first principles
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I ended up using the dictionary quite a lot
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Aristotle is very specific with his choice of words and those words do not translate cleanly from greek to english ex happiness state action virtue etc
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Reader be warned aristotle is challenging to read mostly due to the aforementioned vocabulary
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By contrast aristotles works are lecture notes that spend much of the time breezing through the main points and only making detours to rebut puzzles that challenge his argument likely the results of past conversations of his with students or friends