After the Chinese version of "The Complete Works of Aristotle" (10 volumes) was published in 1997, it won many awards including the Fourth National Book Award (1999) and the National Social Science Foundation Project Outstanding Achievement Award (1999).
For the convenience of readers, and in order to convey to readers his own state of mind in studying Western philosophy, especially ancient Greek philosophy, the author has compiled and selected "Selected Works of Aristotle" with annotations.
Over the past few years, readers, especially college and graduate students, have been reporting the need for separate volumes of Aristotle's works. To meet the needs of these readers, the author has published Aristotle's most influential work in a single volume. The translation of the separate edition is generally consistent with that of the Complete Works of Aristotle. Changes in individual terms and names were personally corrected by Mr. Miao Litian when the complete collection was reprinted and made into an electronic version.
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Aristotle constructed an ethical system based on teleology and anchored "happiness" as the realization of the soul's virtue, breaking through the transcendental framework of Platonism. The "middle way" theory reveals that virtue, as situational practical wisdom, generates ethical subjects in the dynamic balance of excess and deficiency. Its phenomenological interpretation of "phronesis" (practical wisdom) deconstructs the binary opposition between universal imperatives and individual experience, providing a meta-ethical foundation for contemporary virtue ethics. The closure of the teleological chain is slightly arbitrary, but it does not undermine its founding value as an ethical topographic map.
"Nicomachean Ethics" starts from the good, takes the highest good as the ultimate, and adopts the "golden mean" method to analyze the nature of various typical ethical habits in people's lives, their similarities, differences, and interactions, as well as their role in the universal goal of happiness. The description of happiness in the article is impressive.
The text of the work is popular, the logic is smooth, and the ideas are clear. This is a very easy-to-read philosophical work that is extremely useful in training logical thinking. Recommended reading for all friends who have studied logic or like logical thinking.
Aristotle constructed an ethical system based on teleology and anchored "happiness" as the realization of the soul's virtue, breaking through the transcendental framework of Platonism. The "middle way" theory reveals that virtue, as situational practical wisdom, generates ethical subjects in the dynamic balance of excess and deficiency. Its phenomenological interpretation of "phronesis" (practical wisdom) deconstructs the binary opposition between universal imperatives and individual experience, providing a meta-ethical foundation for contemporary virtue ethics. The closure of the teleological chain is slightly arbitrary, but it does not undermine its founding value as an ethical topographic map.
"Nicomachean Ethics" starts from the good, takes the highest good as the ultimate, and adopts the "golden mean" method to analyze the nature of various typical ethical habits in people's lives, their similarities, differences, and interactions, as well as their role in the universal goal of happiness. The description of happiness in the article is impressive. The text of the work is popular, the logic is smooth, and the ideas are clear. This is a very easy-to-read philosophical work that is extremely useful in training logical thinking. Recommended reading for all friends who have studied logic or like logical thinking.