Taking Life Seriously : A Study of the Argument of the Nicomachean Ethics.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The Literary Problem and the Present Undertaking -- 2 Aristotle's Formalism -- 3 The Basic Question -- 4 The Author -- 1 What Is Best for People (I i-xii -- 1094a1-1102a4) -- 1.1 The Idea of the Good (1094a1-1097b21) -- 1.11 General Introduction (I i-iii -- 1094a1-1095a13) -- 1.12 Happiness as the Human Good (I iv-vi -- 1095a13-1097a14) -- 1.13 The Good: Formal Requirements (1097a15-b21) -- 1.2 Rational Living (1097b21-1102a4 [I 6-12]) -- 1.21 The Definition of Happiness (1097b21-1098a20 [I 6]) -- 1.22 Methodological Caution (1098a20-b8 [I 7]) -- 1.23 Harmonization (I viii-xii -- 1098b9-1102a4) -- 2 Reason in Action (I xiii-VI -- 1102a5-1145a11) -- 2.1 The Soul (I xiii -- 1102a5-1103a10) -- 2.11 Comment: Political Analogues -- 2.12 What We Call Virtue (1103a8-10) -- 2.2 Moral Virtue (II-V -- 1103a14-1138b14) -- 2.21 Two Kinds of Virtue (1103a14-23) -- 2.22 Moral Virtue in General (II-III v -- 1103a14-1115a4) -- 2.23 The System of the Virtues (II vii, III vi-IV -- 1107a28-1108b10, 1115a4-1128b35) -- 2.24 Interlude: The Common Books (V-VII -- 1129a1-1154b34) -- 2.25 Justice (V -- 1129a1-1138b14) -- 2.3 The Good Mind (VI -- 1138b18-1145a11) -- 2.31 The Duality of Wisdom (VI i-vii -- 1138b18-1141b23) -- 2.32 The Anatomy of Good Sense (1141b8-1144b1) -- 2.33 The Value of Intellectual Virtue (1143b18-1144b16) -- 2.34 The Unity of Virtue (1144b17-1145a11) -- 3 The Pathology of Practical Reason (VII -- 1145a15-1154b34) -- 3.1 The Anatomy of Wrongdoing (VII i-x -- 1145a15-1152a36) -- 3.11 Weakness of Will (1145a35-1152a36) -- 3.2 The Snare of Pleasure (VII xi-xiv -- 1152b1-1154b34) -- 3.21 The Literary Problem -- 3.22 The Defence of Pleasure -- 4 Love, Consciousness, and Society (VIII-IX -- 1155a1-1172a15) -- 4.1 The Order of Treatment -- 4.2 Introduction (VIII i -- 1155a3-b16).

4.21 Friendship as Virtue (1155a3-4, 28-31) -- 4.22 Friendship as Necessity (1155a4-28) -- 4.23 The Concept of Friendship (1155a32-b16 [VIII 2]) -- 4.3 True Friendship (VIII ii-viii -- 1153b17-1159b24) -- 4.31 Anatomy of Friendship (VIII ii, iv-v -- 1155b17-1156a5, 1156b33-1158a1) -- 4.32 The Basis of Friendship (VIII ii-v -- 1155b17-1158a1) -- 4.4 Community (VIII ix-xii -- 1159b25-1163a23) -- 4.41 Justice and Comradeship (VIII ix -- 1159b25-1160a30) -- 4.42 Necessity and Cooperation (VIII x-xii -- 1160a31-1162a33) -- 4.5 Friendship in the Real World (VIII xiii-IX iii -- 1162a34-1165b36) -- 4.6 Love and Consciousness (IX iv-xii -- 1166a-1172a15) -- 4.61 Self and Other (IX iv -- 1166a1-b29) -- 4.62 Goodwill and Unanimity (IX v-vi -- 1166b30-1167b16) -- 4.63 Friendship and Activity (IX vii-ix -- 1167b17-1169b19) -- 4.7 Conclusion -- 5 The Worth of Pleasure (X i-v -- 1172a19-1176a29) -- 5.1 Pleasure as Supervenient (1174b31-3) -- 5.2 The Evaluation of Pleasure (1175b24-1176a29) -- 5.3 Pleasure and Happiness -- 5.31 Pleasure and Lifetimes -- 5.32 Pleasure and Virtue -- 6 The Good Life and the Best Life: Outline of a Discourse (X vi-viii -- 1176a30-1179a32) -- 6.1 Introduction (1176a30-b8) -- 6.2 Pastimes (1176b9-1177a11) -- 6.21 The Tastes of Tyrants (1176b12-24) -- 6.22 Recreation (1176b24-1177a6) -- 6.23 Slaves and Serious People (1177a6-11) -- 6.24 Leisure -- 6.3 Excursus: Leisure and Three Lives -- 6.4 Virtue (X vii-viii -- 1177a12-1178b32) -- 6.41 The Highest Virtue (X vii -- 1177a12-1178a8) -- 6.42 The Rest of Virtue (X viii -- 1178a9-1179a32) -- 6.5 Peroration (1178b33-1179a16 [X 9]) -- 7 Postscript: The Transition to Politics (X ix -- 1179a33-1181b23) -- Afterword -- Appendix: Aristotle's World -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- D -- E -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I.

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Sparshott expounds Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethicsas a single continuous argument, a chain of reasoned exposition on the problems of human life.

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