Track Section Length
08 08 Nicomachean Ethics - Book I 59:04
09 09 Nicomachean Ethics - Book II 40:42
10 10 Nicomachean Ethics - Book III 1:06:19
11 11 Nicomachean Ethics - Book IV 1:01:10
12 12 Nicomachean Ethics - Book V 1:03:47
13 13 Nicomachean Ethics - Book VI 43:33
14 14 Nicomachean Ethics - Book VII 1:13:44
15 15 Nicomachean Ethics - Book VIII 1:05:35
16 16 Nicomachean Ethics - Book IX 59:15
17 17 Nicomachean Ethics - Book X 1:03:08

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Translated by: Thomas Taylor
Book Coordinator: Geoffrey Edwards
Meta Coordinator: TriciaG
Proof Listener: Hari

Artwork
Cover: Copy of Lysippus, Bust of Aristotle. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC
Inset: Engraving of Aristotle by Ambroise Tardieu (1788-1841)
Insert: Aristotle, holding his Ethics, detail from the Vatican frescoe The School of Athens, Raphael, (1483-1520)


Aristotle coined the term “ethics” to define a field of study first undertaken by Socrates and Plato that seeks a rational answer to the question of how human beings should best live. He considered ethics as a practical study, along with politics and poetics and rhetoric. At the core is the notion of moral virtue, an excellence of character that develops in part due to upbringing and in part as a result of habits of action. He outlines four cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, courage and justice, which combine in the continuing effort to achieve the highest human good. Reason is a critical component of virtue, as it is what sets humans apart. In his words, “The function of man is activity of soul in accordance with reason”.

Nicomachean Ethics is the best known and most mature of his ethical writings and was probably edited by his son and pupil Nicomachus, from which the name derives. It consists of ten books which were originally separate scrolls based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. It became a core work throughout history and was instrumental in the formation of European law and both Christian and Muslim theology. 


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EAN - DVD case 0701236969962
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Box
Author Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Translator Thomas Taylor
Year 4th century BC
Recording
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Length 9 hours 58 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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