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and Christopher Shields,Aristotle(London: Routledge, 2006) also provide helpful
overviews of Aristotle’s life and thought. For general collections of essays, see
R. Bambrough, ed.,New Essays on Plato and Aristotle(London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1965); J.M.E. Moravcsik, ed.,Aristotle: A Collection of Critical Essays
(New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1967); J. Barnes, M. Schofield, and R. Sorabji, eds.,
Articles on Aristotle, four volumes (London: Duckworth, 1979); Terence Irwin,
ed.,Aristotle’s Ethics, Aristotle: Substance, Form, and Matterand Aristotle:
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Natural Philosophy(all three, Hamden, CT: Garland
Publishing, 1995); Cynthia A. Freeland, ed.,Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle
(College Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998); Lloyd P. Gerson,
ed.,Aristotle(London: Routledge, 1999); and George Klosko, ed.,Aristotle
(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007). For help with specific works (besides the
Nicomachean Ethics), see Lindsay Judson, ed.,Aristotle’sPhysics:A Collection of
Essays(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991); Helen S. Lang,Aristotle’sPhysics
and Its Medieval Varieties(Albany: SUNY Press, 1992); Martha C. Nussbaum and
Amelie O. Rorty, eds.,Essays on Aristotle’sDe Anima (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1992); Michael Durrant, ed.,Aristotle’sDe Anima in Focus(Oxford:
Routledge, 1993); Helen S. Lang,The Order of Nature in Aristotle’sPhysics
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); Wolfgang-Rainer Mann,The
Discovery of Things: Aristotle’sCategories and Their Context(Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2000); C.D.C. Reeve, Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle’s
Metaphysics (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2000); Vasilas Politis, Routledge
Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and theMetaphysics (London: Routledge, 2004);
and Ronald Polansky,Aristotle’sDe Anima:A Critical Commentary(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007). The Nichomachean Ethicshas been such an
influential book that many commentaries and essays have been written about it.
Among these are H.H. Joachim,Aristotle: TheNicomachean Ethics, edited by
D.A. Rees (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951); W.F.R. Hardie,Aristotle’s Ethical
Theory, 2nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980); Amelie O. Rorty,
ed.,Essays on Aristotle’sEthics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980);
J.O. Urmson,Aristotle’sEthics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988); Sarah Brodie,
Ethics with Aristotle(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991); Francis Sparshott,
Taking Life Seriously: A Study of the Argument of theNichomachean Ethics
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994); Nancy Sherman, ed.,Aristotle’s
Ethics:Critical Essays(Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999); Gerard J.
Hughes,Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aistotle on Ethics(NY: Routledge,
2001); Michael Pakaluk, Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics: An Introduction
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Christopher Warne,
Arisototle’sNichomachean Ethics:A Reader’s Guide(London: Continuum, 2006).
Alasdair C. MacIntyre’s pair of books,After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory(Notre
Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981) and Whose Justice? Which
Rationality?(Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988) are interest-
ing examples of recent attempts to apply Aristotle’s ethics to contemporary moral
problems.