Nicomachean Ethics

The most important work of moral philosophy ever written — Aristotle’s lectures on how to live well. Its question is what the good life for a human being is, and its answer is eudaimonia, flourishing: the activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, over a complete life. Across ten books Aristotle works out what virtue is (a mean between extremes, formed by habit), examines courage, justice, and practical wisdom, devotes two books to friendship, and ends by crowning the contemplative life. Read section by section beside the Greek, on the Bekker grid scholars have cited for two centuries.