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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s
Nicomachean Ethics
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THE BlACKWEll GuiDE To
Nicomachean
Ethics
EDiTED By RiCHARD KRAuT
Aristotle’s
© 2006 by Blackwell Publishing ltd
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The Blackwell guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics / edited by
Richard Kraut.
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1. Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics. 2. Ethics. i. Kraut, Richard, 1944– . ii. Series.
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
vii
Acknowledgment
ix
Abbreviations
x
introduction
1
Richard Kraut
1 Aristotle’s Ethical Treatises
12
Chris Bobonich
2 Human Good and Human Function
37
Gavin Lawrence
3 How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle’s Method
76
Richard Kraut
4 The Central Doctrine of the Mean
96
Rosalind Hursthouse
5 Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine
116
Gabriel Richardson Lear
6 Aristotle on the Voluntary
137
Susan Sauvé Meyer
7 Aristotle on Greatness of Soul
158
Roger Crisp
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