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.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Nicomachean Ethics that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: F. H. Peters, 1893. Source: Gutenberg 8438.
The text here is 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.
Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.