Ethics With Aristotle [Paperback]

This is a close and comprehensive study of the main themes of Aristotle's ethics. Sarah Broadie concentrates on what he has to teach about happiness, virtue, voluntary agency, practical reason, incontinence, pleasure, and the place oftheoriain the best life. Never forgetting that ethics for Aristotle is above all a practical enterprise, she sheds new light on ways in which this practical orientation affects both content and method of his inquiry. The book culminates in a sustained argument showing how even Aristotle's ideal of theoretic contemplation in integral to his essentially practical vision of human nature.Ethics with Aristotleis a major contribution toward the further understanding of Aristotle's ethics.

An ideal balance: philosophical substance and scholarly apparatus for advanced undergraduates; comprehensive plan (and Aristotle!) for introductory level study. --Don Asselin,Hillsdale College

Broadie has a knack for engaging the reader in Aristotle's problematic. Her style is lucid and intelligent. A valuable book for students or scholars in the field. --Leonard W. Ortmann,Conception Seminary College

A splendid in-depth treatment....Because of the book's wide scope, and the philosophical depth and originality of its author,Ethics with Aristotledeserves to be recognized as one of the best and most important works on Aristotle's moral philosophy written in recent decades. --Ethics

This is a book from which anyone can learn a great deal about ethics and about Aristotle....It is clearly one of the two best books on Aristotle's ethics to appear in recent years. --New England Classical Newsletter & Journal

Magisterial....A powerful set of insights about how to read Aristotle's ethics and many suggestive ideas about how to do ethics with Aristotle. --Mind