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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

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THE BlACKWEll GuiDE To

Nicomachean

Ethics

EDiTED By RiCHARD KRAuT

Aristotle’s

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The Blackwell guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics / edited by

Richard Kraut.

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1. Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics. 2. Ethics. i. Kraut, Richard, 1944– . ii. Series.

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Contents

Notes on Contributors

vii

Acknowledgment

Abbreviations

introduction

Richard Kraut

1 Aristotle’s Ethical Treatises

Chris Bobonich

2 Human Good and Human Function

Gavin Lawrence

3 How to Justify Ethical Propositions: Aristotle’s Method

Richard Kraut

4 The Central Doctrine of the Mean

Rosalind Hursthouse

5 Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine

116

Gabriel Richardson Lear

6 Aristotle on the Voluntary

137

Susan Sauvé Meyer

7 Aristotle on Greatness of Soul

158

Roger Crisp

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