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Tables of Contents for Nicomachean Ethics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Abbreviations and Conventions
xi
Introduction
xiii
Nicomachean Ethics
1
1
Book I [Happiness]
1
17
[Ends and Goods]
1
1
[The Highest Good and Political Science]
1
1
[The Method of Political Science]
2
1
[Common Beliefs]
3
1
[The Three Lives]
4
1
[The Platonic Form of the Good]
5
2
[An Account of the Human Good]
7
3
[Defense of the Account of the Good]
10
2
[How Is Happiness Achieved?]
12
1
[Can We Be Happy during Our Lifetime?]
13
2
[How Happiness Can Be Affected after One's Death]
15
1
[Praise and Honor]
15
1
[Introduction to the Virtues]
16
2
Book II [Virtue of Character]
18
12
[How a Virtue of Character Is Acquired]
18
1
[Habituation]
19
1
[The Importance of Pleasure and Pain]
20
2
[Virtuous Actions versus Virtuous Character]
22
1
[Virtue of Character: Its Genus]
23
1
[Virtue of Character: Its Differentia]
23
2
[The Particular Virtues of Character]
25
2
[Relations between Mean and Extreme States]
27
2
[How Can We Reach the Mean?]
29
1
Book III [Preconditions of Virtue]
30
19
[Voluntary Action]
30
3
[Decision]
33
1
[Deliberation]
34
2
[Wish]
36
1
[Virtue and Vice Are in Our Power]
37
3
[The Individual Virtues of Character]
40
1
[Bravery; Its Scope]
40
1
[Bravery; Its Characteristic Outlook]
41
1
[Conditions That Resemble Bravery]
42
2
[Feelings Proper to Bravery]
44
1
[Temperance; Its Scope]
45
2
[Temperance; Its Outlook]
47
1
[Intemperance]
48
1
Book IV
49
18
[Generosity]
49
4
[Magnificence]
53
3
[Magnanimity]
56
4
[The Virtue Concerned with Small Honors]
60
1
[Mildness]
61
1
[Friendliness]
62
1
[Truthfulness]
63
2
[Wit]
65
1
[Shame]
66
1
Book V [Justice]
67
19
[Varieties of Justice]
67
2
[Special Justice Contrasted with General]
69
2
[Justice in Distribution]
71
1
[Justice in Rectification]
72
2
[Justice in Exchange]
74
3
[Political Justice]
77
1
[Justice by Nature and by Law]
78
1
[Justice, Injustice, and the Voluntary]
79
1
[Puzzles about Justice and Injustice]
80
3
[Decency]
83
1
[Injustice to Oneself]
84
2
Book VI [Virtues of Thought]
86
13
[The Mean and the Virtues of Thought]
86
1
[Thought, Desire, and Decision]
87
1
[Scientific Knowledge]
87
1
[Craft Knowledge]
88
1
[Prudence]
89
1
[Understanding]
90
1
[Wisdom versus Prudence]
90
2
[Types of Prudence]
92
1
[Good Deliberation]
93
2
[Comprehension]
95
1
[Practical Thought and Particulars]
95
1
[Puzzles about Prudence and Wisdom]
96
2
[Prudence and Virtue of Character]
98
1
Book VII [Incontinence]
99
20
[Virtue, Vice, and Incontinence]
99
1
[Puzzles about Incontinence]
100
2
[Incontinence and Ignorance]
102
2
[Simple Incontinence]
104
2
[Bestiality and Disease]
106
1
[Incontinence and Related Conditions]
107
2
[Incontinence, Intemperance, and Softness]
109
1
[Why Intemperance Is Worse than Incontinence]
110
1
[Continence]
111
2
[Answers to Further Questions about Incontinence]
113
1
[Pleasure]
114
1
[Questions about Pleasure]
114
1
[Pleasure and Good]
115
1
[Pleasure and Happiness]
116
1
[Bodily Pleasures]
117
2
Book VIII [Friendship]
119
18
[Common Beliefs and Questions]
119
1
[The Object of Friendship]
120
1
[The Three Types of Friendship]
121
2
[Comparison between the Types of Friendship]
123
1
[State and Activity in Friendship]
124
1
[Activities Characteristic of the Different Types of Friendship]
125
2
[Friendship between Unequals]
127
1
[Giving and Receiving in Friendship]
128
1
[Friendship in Communities]
129
1
[Political Systems]
130
1
[Friendships in Political Systems]
131
1
[Friendships in Families]
132
2
[Disputes in Friendships between Equals]
134
2
[Disputes in Friendships between Unequals]
136
1
Book IX
137
16
[Friends with Dissimilar Aims]
137
2
[Conflicts between Different Types of Friendships]
139
1
[Dissolution of Friendships]
140
1
[Self-love and Friendship]
141
2
[Goodwill and Friendship]
143
1
[Friendship and Concord]
144
1
[Active Benevolence and Friendship]
145
1
[Self-love and Selfishness]
146
2
[Why Are Friends Needed?]
148
2
[How Many Friends Are Needed?]
150
1
[Friends in Good and Ill Fortune]
151
1
[Shared Activity in Friendship]
152
1
Book X [Pleasure]
153
19
[The Right Approach to Pleasure]
153
1
[Arguments about Pleasure]
154
1
[Pleasure Is a Good, but Not the Good]
155
2
[Pleasure Is an Activity]
157
2
[Pleasures Differ in Kind]
159
3
[Happiness: Further Discussion]
162
1
[Conditions for Happiness]
162
1
[Happiness and Theoretical Study]
163
2
[Theoretical Study and the Other Virtues]
165
2
[From Ethics to Politics]
167
1
[Moral Education]
167
5
Notes
172
143
Glossary
315
Further Reading
355