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The Eudemian Ethics (Greek: Ἠθικὰ Εὐδήμεια; Latin: Ethica Eudemia or De moribus ad Eudemum) is a work of philosophy by Aristotle. Its primary focus is on ethics, making it one of the primary sources available for study of Aristotelian ethics.
Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1, section 1214a. book: section: [ 1214a ] [1] The man 1 who at Delos set forth in the precinct of the god his own opinion composed an inscription for the forecourt of the temple of Leto in which he distinguished goodness, beauty and pleasantness as not all being properties of the same thing.
1 de may. de 2001 · Aristotle wrote two ethical treatises: the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics. He does not himself use either of these titles, although in the Politics (1295a36) he refers back to one of them—probably the Eudemian Ethics —as “ ta êthika ”—his writings about character.
Aristotle’s unexpected focus on the pleasantness of the happy life is just one of the many significant, though often subtle, differences between Aristotle’s two authoritative books on ethics, distinguished since antiquity by the epithets ‘Nicomachean’ and ‘Eudemian’.
Eudemian Ethics. work by Aristotle. Also known as: “Ethica Eudemia” Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Aristotle: Ethics. In the 19th century the Eudemian Ethics was often suspected of being the work of Aristotle’s pupil Eudemus of Rhodes, but there is no good reason to doubt its authenticity.
1 de oct. de 2013 · The Eudemian Ethics discusses a range of topics rather similar to that of the Nicomachean Ethics, and it proceeds in a rather similar order: beginning with a discussion of happiness as the highest humanly achievable good, and a conception of it as active exercise of virtue, Aristotle then offers theories of character-virtues like ...
2 ; “And thief knows thief and wolf his fellow wolf.” 3. And the natural philosophers even arrange the whole of nature in a system by assuming as a first principle that like goes to like, owing to which Empedocles 4 said that the dog sits on the tiling because it is most like him. 5. Some people then give this account of a friend; but ...
