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Detail from 14th century (C.E.) manuscript of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Vatican Library)

Aristotle: Ethics

Reading Assignments:

10/14 Aristotle, Politics: Bk. I, chs. 1-2 [PDF]

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Bk. I, chs. 1-8 [PDF], Bk. II, chs. 1-2. [PDF]

10/21 Nicomachean Ethics, Bk. II., chs. 1-9; Bk. III, chs. 1-7, 10-12; Bk. IV, chs. 1, 3, 6, 9; Bk. V, chs. 1-2, 8-9, 11; Bk. VI, chs. 1-7, 12-13 [PDF: Bks. II-VI]

10/28 Nicomachean Ethics, Bk. VII, chs. 1-14; Bk. VIII, chs. 1-3, 6, 8, 9, 11; Bk. IX, chs. 4-6, 8-10; X, 1-4, 6-9. [PDF: Bks. VII-X]

☞ Supplementary Reference:

1. R,F. Stalley's Explanatory Notes for B. Jowett's translation of Politics, Bk. I (Oxford) [PDF]

2. L. Brown's Explanatory Notes for W.D. Ross translation of the Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford) [PDF]

LECTURE SLIDES:

Aristotle - Ethics I.1-II.1 lecture slides.pdf

Rembrandt van Rijn, " Aristotle Contemplating Bust of Homer, " 1653.
(Metropolitan Museum, New York)