An Introduction to Aristotle's Ethics: Books I-IV, with a Continuous Analysis and Notes Intended for the Use of Beginners and Junior Students

Name : An Introduction to Aristotle's Ethics: Books I-IV, with a Continuous Analysis and Notes Intended for the Use of Beginners and Junior Students

Author : Aristotle, Edward Moore

Book Format : Paperback

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121289832

Language : English

Pages : 301-400 Pages

Publish Year : 2023

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About The Book : The same considerations must serve as an apology for language sometimes consciously loose and unphilosophical in the Analysis and Notes. The attempt to put such a treatise as that of Aristotle into such a ‘modern’ light as may be intelligible to a reader ex hyp. Unacquainted with philosophical phraseology, seems necessarily to involve the sacrifice of technical accuracy. This desire to appeal as far as possible to modern sympathies has occasioned a certain amount of diffuseness in parallel quotations from recent popular writers. The best thanks of the author are due to several friends who have kindly assisted him by their advice in various parts of the work: and he will feel grateful for any further criticisms or suggestions that may be offered to him. About The Author: Aristotle, 384 B.C. - 322 B. C. Aristotle was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, in 384 B.C. At the age of 17, he went to Athens to study at Plato's Academy, where he remained for about 20 years, as a student and then as a teacher. When Plato died in 347 B.C., Aristotle moved to Assos, a city in Asia Minor, where a friend of his, Hermias, was ruler. After Hermias was captured and executed by the Persians in 345 B.C., Aristotle went to Pella, the Macedonian capital, where he became the tutor of the king's young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great. In 335, when Alexander became king, Aris

Country of Origin : India