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The Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle · Translated by F. H. Peters, 1893

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics

Translated by F. H. Peters, 1893

What this is

Ten books asking what the good life for a human being is, and answering that it is activity of the soul in accordance with virtue — then spending nine books working out what that means in practice, including the longest treatment of friendship in ancient philosophy.

How it is set

One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.

What is not here

Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.

The 10 books

  1. I Chapter… 1 sections
  2. II Chapter… 1 sections
  3. III Chapter… 1 sections
  4. IV Chapter… 1 sections
  5. V Chapter… 1 sections
  6. VI Chapter… 1 sections
  7. VII Chapter… 1 sections
  8. VIII Chapter… 1 sections
  9. IX Chapter… 1 sections
  10. X Chapter… 1 sections

Text: Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics — the translation published by Kegan Paul, 1893, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 8438, set unaltered. Named for Nicomachus, who was either Aristotle’s father or his son; nobody is sure which, and the title does not say.