Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

166 ARISTOTLE people and cultivated men call it happiness, and understand by “being happy” the same as “living well” and “doing ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKI) 167 30 1096 a 5 10 good is a man’s own possession which cannot easily be taken away from him. Furthermo ...

168 ARISTOTLE Thirdly, since the things which are included under one Form are the subject mat- ter of a single science, there sh ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKI) 169 35 1097 a 5 10 absolutely in itself and by itself, it evidently is something which cannot be realiz ...

170 ARISTOTLE mean a man who lives his life in isolation, but a man who also lives with parents, chil- dren, a wife, and friends ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKI) 171 But we must add “in a complete life.” For one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one sunny da ...

172 ARISTOTLE wisdom, others that it is some kind of theoretical wisdom; others again believe it to be all or some of these acco ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKI) 173 actions can only be performed with the help of instruments, as it were: friends, wealth, and politi ...

174 ARISTOTLE happy after he is dead? Is this not simply absurd, especially for us who define happiness as a kind of activity? S ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKI) 175 If, as we said, the activities determine a man’s life, no supremely happy man can ever become miser ...

176 ARISTOTLE man, a swift runner, and so forth, because he possesses a certain natural quality and stands in a certain relation ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKI) 177 though in reality indivisible, as convex and concave are in the circumference of a circle, is irrel ...

178 ARISTOTLE BOOKII Moral Virtue as the Result of Habits:Virtue, as we have seen, consists of two- kinds, intellectual virtue ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKII) 179 inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advan ...

180 ARISTOTLE Furthermore, since the virtues have to do with actions and emotions, and since pleasure and pain are a consequence ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKII) 181 literate only if he produces a piece of writing in a literate way, and that means doing it 25 in a ...

182 ARISTOTLE virtues are neither emotions nor capacities, the only remaining alternative is that they are characteristics. So m ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKII) 183 30 35 both praise and success are signs of virtue or excellence. Consequently, virtue is a mean in ...

184 ARISTOTLE an unjust or a cowardly or a self-indulgent act. For if there were, we would have a mean of excess and a mean of d ...

NICOMACHEANETHICS(BOOKII) 185 man who occupies the middle position gentle. Of the extremes, let the man who exceeds be called sh ...