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The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

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Translated by William David Ross
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117 chapters English Public domain
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117 chapters

26 Chapter 3. The nature of deliberation and its objects: choice is the deliberate desire of things in our own power 27 Chapter 4. The object of rational wish is the end, i.e. the good or the apparent good 28 Chapter 5. We are responsible for bad as well as for good actions 29 Chapter 6. Courage concerned with the feelings of fear and confidence--strictly speaking, with the fear of death in battle 30 Chapter 7. The motive of courage is the sense of honour: characteristics of the opposite vices, cowardice and rashness 31 Chapter 8. Five kinds of courage improperly so called 32 Chapter 9. Relation of courage to pain and pleasure 33 Chapter 10. Temperance is limited to certain pleasures of touch 34 Chapter 11. Characteristics of temperance and its opposites, self-indulgence and 'insensibility' 35 Chapter 12. Self-indulgence more voluntary than cowardice: comparison of the self-indulgent man to the spoilt child 36 Chapter 1. Liberality, prodigality, meanness 37 Chapter 2. Magnificence, vulgarity, niggardliness 38 Chapter 3. Pride, vanity, humility 39 Chapter 4. Ambition, unambitiousness, and the mean between them 40 Chapter 5. Good temper, irascibility, inirascibility. 41 Chapter 6. Friendliness, obsequiousness, churlishness 42 Chapter 7. Truthfulness, boastfulness, mock-modesty 43 Chapter 8. Ready wit, buffoonery, boorishness 44 Chapter 9. Shame, bashfulness, shamelessness 45 Chapter 1. The just as the lawful (universal justice) and the just as the fair and equal (particular justice): the former considered 46 Chapter 2. The latter considered: divided into distributive and rectificatory justice 47 Chapter 3. Distributive justice, in accordance with geometrical proportion 48 Chapter 4. Rectificatory justice, in accordance with arithmetical progression 49 Chapter 5. Justice in exchange, reciprocity in accordance with proportion 50 Chapter 6. Political justice and analogous kinds of justice
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Title

The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

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Aristotle
Translated by William David Ross
Details
117 chapters English Public domain
About this book

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Table of contents

117 chapters

26 Chapter 3. The nature of deliberation and its objects: choice is the deliberate desire of things in our own power 27 Chapter 4. The object of rational wish is the end, i.e. the good or the apparent good 28 Chapter 5. We are responsible for bad as well as for good actions 29 Chapter 6. Courage concerned with the feelings of fear and confidence--strictly speaking, with the fear of death in battle 30 Chapter 7. The motive of courage is the sense of honour: characteristics of the opposite vices, cowardice and rashness 31 Chapter 8. Five kinds of courage improperly so called 32 Chapter 9. Relation of courage to pain and pleasure 33 Chapter 10. Temperance is limited to certain pleasures of touch 34 Chapter 11. Characteristics of temperance and its opposites, self-indulgence and 'insensibility' 35 Chapter 12. Self-indulgence more voluntary than cowardice: comparison of the self-indulgent man to the spoilt child 36 Chapter 1. Liberality, prodigality, meanness 37 Chapter 2. Magnificence, vulgarity, niggardliness 38 Chapter 3. Pride, vanity, humility 39 Chapter 4. Ambition, unambitiousness, and the mean between them 40 Chapter 5. Good temper, irascibility, inirascibility. 41 Chapter 6. Friendliness, obsequiousness, churlishness 42 Chapter 7. Truthfulness, boastfulness, mock-modesty 43 Chapter 8. Ready wit, buffoonery, boorishness 44 Chapter 9. Shame, bashfulness, shamelessness 45 Chapter 1. The just as the lawful (universal justice) and the just as the fair and equal (particular justice): the former considered 46 Chapter 2. The latter considered: divided into distributive and rectificatory justice 47 Chapter 3. Distributive justice, in accordance with geometrical proportion 48 Chapter 4. Rectificatory justice, in accordance with arithmetical progression 49 Chapter 5. Justice in exchange, reciprocity in accordance with proportion 50 Chapter 6. Political justice and analogous kinds of justice
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The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

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Translated by William David Ross
Details
117 chapters English Public domain
About this book

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Table of contents

117 chapters

26 Chapter 3. The nature of deliberation and its objects: choice is the deliberate desire of things in our own power 27 Chapter 4. The object of rational wish is the end, i.e. the good or the apparent good 28 Chapter 5. We are responsible for bad as well as for good actions 29 Chapter 6. Courage concerned with the feelings of fear and confidence--strictly speaking, with the fear of death in battle 30 Chapter 7. The motive of courage is the sense of honour: characteristics of the opposite vices, cowardice and rashness 31 Chapter 8. Five kinds of courage improperly so called 32 Chapter 9. Relation of courage to pain and pleasure 33 Chapter 10. Temperance is limited to certain pleasures of touch 34 Chapter 11. Characteristics of temperance and its opposites, self-indulgence and 'insensibility' 35 Chapter 12. Self-indulgence more voluntary than cowardice: comparison of the self-indulgent man to the spoilt child 36 Chapter 1. Liberality, prodigality, meanness 37 Chapter 2. Magnificence, vulgarity, niggardliness 38 Chapter 3. Pride, vanity, humility 39 Chapter 4. Ambition, unambitiousness, and the mean between them 40 Chapter 5. Good temper, irascibility, inirascibility. 41 Chapter 6. Friendliness, obsequiousness, churlishness 42 Chapter 7. Truthfulness, boastfulness, mock-modesty 43 Chapter 8. Ready wit, buffoonery, boorishness 44 Chapter 9. Shame, bashfulness, shamelessness 45 Chapter 1. The just as the lawful (universal justice) and the just as the fair and equal (particular justice): the former considered 46 Chapter 2. The latter considered: divided into distributive and rectificatory justice 47 Chapter 3. Distributive justice, in accordance with geometrical proportion 48 Chapter 4. Rectificatory justice, in accordance with arithmetical progression 49 Chapter 5. Justice in exchange, reciprocity in accordance with proportion 50 Chapter 6. Political justice and analogous kinds of justice
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