Ethics

Name: Ethics
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781787366534

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: George Easton

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 04/12/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

Ethics is a philosophical work written by Aristotle, in which he explores the nature of human morality and virtue. In this work, Aristotle seeks to identify the highest good for human beings and determine how individuals can live a good life. Aristotle argues that the ultimate goal of human life is to achieve happiness or eudaimonia, which he defines as a state of complete well-being and fulfillment. He believes that happiness is achieved through the cultivation of virtues, which are habits of behavior that allow individuals to act in ways that promote the common good. Read in English, unabridged.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard on August 14, 2019

Wow is all that needs to be said! Started this book in July while reading other books and finally just read on this book for about the last 3 to 4 weeks. 935 pages of comprehensive writings from ancient philosophers to writings about contemporary moral problems. Wow! Wow! I don't believe I am smarte......more

Goodreads review by Rudolph on March 17, 2017

It started out as the required text for my ethics class, but after I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. I spent the next three months looking though every argument. My favorite so far has been Rawls' theory of justice, and almost all pro-euthanasia/patient-assisted suicide arguments. I wish......more