Overview
The ''Eudemian Ethics'' is less well known than Aristotle's ''Nicomachean Ethics'', and, when scholars refer simply to the ''Ethics'' of Aristotle, the latter is generally intended. The ''Eudemian Ethics'' is shorter than the ''Nicomachean Ethics'', eight books as opposed to ten, and some of its most interesting passages are mirrored in the latter. Books IV, V, and VI of the ''Eudemian Ethics'', for example, are identical to Books V, VI, and VII of the ''Nicomachean Ethics'', and as a result some critical editions of the former include only Books I–III and VII–VIII (the omitted books being included in the publisher's critical edition of the latter). The translator for the Loeb edition, Harris Rackham, states in the Introduction to that edition that "in some places ''The Eudemian Ethics'' is fuller in expression or more discursive than ''The Nicomachean Ethics''." Compared to the ''Nicomachean Ethics'', Rackham mentions, for example in Book III, which discusses the virtues and some minor graces of character: *It "inserts the virtue of Mildness between Temperance and Liberality". Temperance is discussed at the end of Book III of the ''Nicomachean Ethics'', and Liberality immediately afterwards in the beginning of Book IV. *It "adds to the minor Graces of Character Nemesis (righteous indignation at another's undeserved good or bad fortune), Friendliness and Dignity, while it omits Gentleness and Agreeableness". The ''Nicomachean Ethics'' actually states in Book II that Nemesis will be discussed within that work, but never does so. Book VII is concerning friendship, discussed in greater length and detail in the ''Nicomachean Ethics'' than it is here. Book VIII discusses the epistemological aspect of virtue, which as Rackham notes is treated in Book I section 9 of ''Nicomachean Ethics'', and also discusses good luck. Then there is a section concerning '' kalokagathia'', the beautiful and good nobility of a gentleman, a virtue which implies all the moral virtues as well as good fortune. This has no parallel in the ''Nicomachean Ethics''. And then finally there is some discussion of speculative wisdom or "''theoria''".English translations
* ''The Eudemian Ethics'' by Anthony Kenny, Oxford, 2011. * '' Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics'', edited by Brad Inwood and Raphael Woolf, Cambridge University Press, 2013.Notes
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