Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Aristotle - ISBN: 9781541604872
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Aristotle’s guide to happiness through virtue and the good life.
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Summary

From a preeminent scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aristotle’s essential work.

The Nicomachean Ethics is widely considered Aristotle’s most significant work of ethical philosophy. The Ethics has had an unquestionably profound impact on all subsequent Western philosophy, law, and theology, from the works of Dante Alighieri to modern virtue ethics.

In this new translation, preeminent scholar Robin Waterfield masterfully renders Aristotle’s indispens…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781541604872
ISBN-10:1541604873
Author:Aristotle Aristotle, Robin Waterfield
Publisher:Basic Books
Imprint:Basic Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:27 October 2026
Dimensions:235mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

“A fresh translation in a modern voice, ingenious in finding contemporary equivalents of Aristotle’s meaning, which can be warmly recommended for making this great text more appealing and understandable to today’s readers.”–Michael Pakaluk, Catholic University of America“For generations of students and readers, Robin Waterfield has made the great works of Greek literature and philosophy accessible. He has now turned his hand to Aristotle’s masterpiece, the Nicomachean Ethics, and it is a triumph.”–Timothy J. Crowley, University College Dublin“Waterfield has produced a reliable, fresh, and wonderfully readable translation of the Ethics that makes Aristotle’s often elliptical style accessible to those approaching him for the first time.”–Brad Inwood, Yale University

About The Author

Aristotle Aristotle

Robin Waterfield is a British classical scholar, translator, and editor, specializing in ancient Greek philosophy and history. Among others, his translations include Plato’s Republic, Herodotus’s The Histories, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Thucydides’s The History of the Peloponnesian War, and Aesop’s Fables. He lives in Greece.

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