Happy lives and the highest good : an essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics /

Richardson Lear, Gabriel, 1971-

Happy lives and the highest good : an essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics / Gabriel Richardson Lear. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University, c2004. - viii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-227) and indexes.

The finality criterion -- The self-sufficiency of happiness -- Acting for the sake of an object of love -- Theoretical and practical reason -- Moral virtue and to Kalon -- Courage, temperance, and greatness of soul -- Two happy lives and their most final ends -- Acting for love in the symposium.

9780691114668 (alk. paper) 9780691126265 (pbk.)

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Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.
Aristote. Éthique ̉Nicomaque.


Ethics, Ancient.
Ethica Nicomachea (Aristoteles)
Morale ancienne.

B430 / .R48 2004

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