The Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
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Author: AristotleNarrator: Nadia May
Edition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Unabridged
Published: 2000-07
ISBN: 0786117931
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Book Review: For those who want a theory to excellence
Summary: 4 Stars
Aristotle's ethics is a theory of excellence so it definitely spoke to me as a individual. He starts with the claim that the end of all human action is happiness and he claims that happiness requires virtue. He goes on to look at several different types of virtues and he believes they can be perfected through practice. One is to practice at finding the golden mean between excess and deficiency. To use an example from Aristotle to illustrate, one is to act courageously, but it is rash to act with too much courage and it is cowardice to not act with enough courage. Therefore, he supports finding the mean in all human action and this is to lead to happiness. Books 8 and 9 give the best treatise on friendship that I have ever found so I recommend those two books above all of the rest. Overall the whole book is worth ones time though. Aristotle's ethics is a simple and a commonsensical approach to ethics so nobody should be put off from reading this book due to its difficulty.
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