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Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 1. All human activities aim at some good: some goods subordinate to others
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 2. The science of the good for man is politics
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 3. We must not expect more precision than the subject-matter admits. The student should have
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 4. The good is generally agreed to be happiness, but there are various views as to what happi
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 5. Discussion of the popular views that the good is pleasure, honour, wealth; a fourth kind o
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 6. Discussion of the philosophical view that there is an Idea of good
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 7. The good must be something final and self-sufficient. Definition of happiness reached by c
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 8. This definition is confirmed by current beliefs about happiness
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 9. Is happiness acquired by learning or habituation, or sent by God or by chance?
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 10. Should no man be called happy while he lives?
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 11. Do the fortunes of the living affect the dead?
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 12. Virtue is praiseworthy, but happiness is above praise
- Book I: The Good for Man: Chapter 13. Division of the faculties, and resultant division of virtue into intellectual and moral
- Book II: Moral Virtue: Chapter 1. Moral virtue, like the arts, is acquired by repetition of the corresponding acts
- Book II: Moral Virtue: Chapter 2. These acts cannot be prescribed exactly, but must avoid excess and defect
- Book II: Moral Virtue: Chapter 3. Pleasure in doing virtuous acts is a sign that the virtuous disposition has been acquired: a
- Book II: Moral Virtue: Chapter 4. The actions that produce moral virtue are not good in the same sense as those that flow from
- Book II: Moral Virtue: Chapter 5. Moral virtue's genus: it is a state of character, not a passion nor a faculty
- Book II: Moral Virtue: Chapter 6. Its differentia: it is a disposition to choose the mean
- Book II: Moral Virtue: Chapter 7. This proposition illustrated by reference to the particular virtues
- Book II: Moral Virtue: Chapter 8. The extremes are opposed to each other and the mean
- Book II: Moral Virtue: Chapter 9. The mean is hard to attain, and is grasped by perception, not by reasoning
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 1. Praise and blame attach to voluntary actions, i.e. actions done (1) not under compulsion, an
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 2. Moral virtue implies that the action is done (3) by choice; the object of choice is the resu
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 3. The nature of deliberation and its objects: choice is the deliberate desire of things in our
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 4. The object of rational wish is the end, i.e. the good or the apparent good
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 5. We are responsible for bad as well as for good actions
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 6. Courage concerned with the feelings of fear and confidence, strictly speaking, with the fear
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 7. The motive of courage is the sense of honour: characteristics of the opposite vices, cowardi
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 8. Five kinds of courage improperly so called
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 9. Relation of courage to pain and pleasure
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 10. Temperance is limited to certain pleasures of touch
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 11. Characteristics of temperance and its opposites, self-indulgence and 'insensibility'
- Book III: Moral Virtue: Chapter 12. Self-indulgence more voluntary than cowardice: comparison of the self-indulgent man to the
- Book IV. Moral Virtue: Chapter 1. Liberality, prodigality, meanness
- Book IV. Moral Virtue: Chapter 2. Magnificence, vulgarity, niggardliness
- Book IV. Moral Virtue: Chapter 3. Pride, vanity, humility
- Book IV. Moral Virtue: Chapter 4. Ambition, unambitiousness, and the mean between them
- Book IV. Moral Virtue: Chapter 5. Good temper, irascibility, inirascibility
- Book IV. Moral Virtue: Chapter 6. Friendliness, obsequiousness, churlishness
- Book IV. Moral Virtue: Chapter 7. Truthfulness, boastfulness, mock-modesty
- Book IV. Moral Virtue: Chapter 8. Ready wit, buffoonery, boorishness
- Book IV. Moral Virtue: Chapter 9. Shame, bashfulness, shamelessness
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 1. The just as the lawful (universal justice) and the just as the fair and equal (particular just
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 2. The latter considered: divided into distributive and rectificatory justice
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 3. Distributive justice, in accordance with geometrical proportion
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 4. Rectificatory justice, in accordance with arithmetical progression
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 5. Justice in exchange, reciprocity in accordance with proportion
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 6. Political justice and analogous kinds of justice
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 7. Natural and legal justice
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 8. The scale of degrees of wrongdoing
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 9. Can a man be voluntarily treated unjustly?
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 10. Equity, a corrective of legal justice
- Book V. Moral Virtue: Chapter 11. Can a man treat himself unjustly
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 1. Reasons for studying intellectual virtue: intellect divided into the contemplative and
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 2. The object of the former is truth, that of the latter truth corresponding with right d
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 3. Science, demonstrative knowledge of the necessary and eternal
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 4. Art, knowledge of how to make things
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 5. Practical wisdom, knowledge of how to secure the ends of human life
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 6. Intuitive reason, knowledge of the principles from which science proceeds
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 7. Philosophic wisdom, the union of intuitive reason and science
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 8. Relations between practical wisdom and political science
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 9. Goodness in deliberation, how related to practical wisdom
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 10. Understanding, the critical quality answering to the imperative quality practical wis
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 11. Judgement, right discrimination of the equitable: the place of intuition in morals
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 12. What is the use of philosophic and of practical wisdom?
- Book VI. Intellectual Virtue: Chapter 13. Relation of practical wisdom to natural virtue, moral virtue, and the right rule
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 1. Six varieties of character: method of treatment: current opinions
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 2. Contradictions involved in these opinions
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 3. Solution of the problem, in what sense the incontinent man acts against knowl
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 4. Solution of the problem, what is the sphere of incontinence: its proper and i
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 5. Incontinence in its extended sense includes a brutish and a morbid form
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 6. Incontinence in respect of anger less disgraceful than incontinence proper
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 7. Softness and endurance: two forms of incontinence, weakness and impetuosity
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 8. Self-indulgence worse than incontinence
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 9. Relation of continence to obstinancy, incontinence, 'insensibility', temperen
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 10. Practical wisdom is not compatible with incontinence, but cleverness is
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 11. Three views hostile to pleasure, and the arguments for them
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 12. Discussion of the view that pleasure is not a good
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 13. Discussion of the view that pleasure is not the chief good
- Book VII. Continence and Incontinence: Chapter 14. Discussion of the view that most pleasures are bad, and of the tendency to i
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 1. Friendship both necessary and noble: main questions about it
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 2. Three objects of love: implications of friendship
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 3. Three corresponding kinds of friendship: superiority of friendship whose motive is the good
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 4. Contrast between the best and the inferior kinds
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 5. The state of friendship distinguished from the activity of friendship and from the feeling of
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 6. Various relations between the three kinds
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 7. In unequal friendships a proportion must be maintained
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 8. Loving is more of the essence of friendship than being loved
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 9. Parallelism of friendship and justice: the state comprehends all lesser communities
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 10. Classification of constitutions: analogies with family relations
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 11. Corresponding forms of friendship, and of justice
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 12. Various forms of friendship between relations
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 13. Principles of interchange of services (a) in friendship between equals
- Book VIII. Friendship: Chapter 14. (b) In friendship between unequals
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 1. (c) In friendship in which the motives on the two sides are different
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 2. Conflict of obligations
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 3. Occasions of breaking off friendship
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 4. Friendship is based on self-love
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 5. Relation of friendship to goodwill
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 6. Relation of friendship to unanimity
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 7. The pleasure of beneficence
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 8. The nature of true self-love
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 9. Why does the happy man need friends?
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 10. The limit to the number of friends
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 11. Are friends more needed in good or in bad fortune?
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 12. The essence of friendship is living together
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 1. Two opposed views about pleasure
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 2. Discussion of the view that pleasure is the good
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 3. Discussion of the view that pleasure is wholly bad
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 4. Definition of pleasure
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 5. Pleasures differ with the activities which they accompany and complete: criterion of the value
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 6. Happiness is a good activity, not amusement
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 7. Happiness in the highest sense is the contemplative life
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 8. Superiority of the contemplative life further considered
- Book IX. Friendship: Chapter 9. Legislation is needed if the end is to be attained: transition to Politics
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