TrackSectionLength
0101 Eudemian Ethics - Book I Chapters 1-829:34
0202 Eudemian Ethics - Book II Chapters 1-631:23
0303 Eudemian Ethics - Book II Chapters 7-1135:52
0404 Eudemian Ethics - Book III Chapters 1-742:08
0505 Eudemian Ethics - Book VII Chapters 1-538:22
0606 Eudemian Ethics - Book VII Chapters 6-1131:42
0707 Eudemian Ethics - Book VII Chapters 12-1537:14
0808 Nicomachean Ethics - Book I59:09
0909 Nicomachean Ethics - Book II40:42
1010 Nicomachean Ethics - Book III1:06:23
1111 Nicomachean Ethics - Book IV1:01:15
1212 Nicomachean Ethics - Book V1:03:50
1313 Nicomachean Ethics - Book VI43:37
1414 Nicomachean Ethics - Book VII1:13:40
1515 Nicomachean Ethics - Book VIII1:05:38
1616 Nicomachean Ethics - Book IX59:20
1717 Nicomachean Ethics - Book X1:03:13



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Eudemian Ethics
Read by: Geoffrey Edwards
Book Coordinator: Geoffrey Edwards
Meta Coordinator: TriciaG
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Nicomachean Ethics
Read by: Geoffrey Edwards
Book Coordinator: Geoffrey Edwards
Meta Coordinator: TriciaG
Proof Listener: Hari

Artwork
Cover: Aristotle  by Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
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)

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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”.

Eudemian Ethics is the shorter and lesser known of Aristotle’s treatises on ethics. The title is derived from his pupil Eudemus of Rhodes, who may have helped edit the work, and its companion Greek word eudaimonia is often translated as well-being and happiness. It consists of eight books, three of which (IV-VI) are identical to books V-VII in the Nicomachean Ethics. 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 0683422134760
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD case, CD jacket, CD security sleeve, download zip file
Author Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
Translator Eudemian Ethics translated by J. Solomon. Nicomachean Ethics translated by Thomas Taylor.
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Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Length 14 hours 2 minutes Eudemian Ethics 4 hours 6 minutes Nicomachean Ethics 9 hours 56 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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