Aristotle

Ethica Nicomachea Aristotle

2017 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Text in Latin. The Nicomachean Ethics, as it is known in English, is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum.

The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, of how men should best live. The Nicomachean Ethics is widely considered one of the most important historical philosophical works. It had an important impact upon the European Middle Ages, becoming one of the core works of medieval philosophy. It therefore indirectly became critical in the development of all modern philosophy as well as European law and theology. Ingram Bywater edited this edition, which retains a following more than a century after its original publication.