The Nicomachean Ethics
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1998
Summary
Enduringly profound treatise, whose lasting effect on Western philosophy continues to resonate. Aristotle identifies the goal of life as happiness and discusses its attainment through the contemplation of philosophic truth. Hailed by Dante as “the master of those who know,” the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) surveyed every field of learning known to the ancient world and pioneered the sciences of psychology and logic. A disciple of Plato and the tutor to Alexander the Great, Arist…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486400969 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486400964 |
| Author: | Aristotle Aristotle, Etc. Etc. |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1998 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 132mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Thrift Editions |
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Francis Fergusson was a renowned classical scholar, translator, and literary critic. His works include “The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays,” “Sallies of the Mind: Essays,” “Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare,” and “Dante’s Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the “Purgatorio.”
S. H. Butcher was a translator and scholar who served as editor for the Dover Thrift Edition of the “Poetics,” as well as for the “Orationes, Volume 1” by Demosthenes. Butcher is also the author of “Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art.”
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