Eudemian Ethics
Forthcoming The translation of this work is in preparation and will be published in the library.
Introduction
The Eudemian Ethics is Aristotle's other treatise on ethics. Three of its books are identical with books of the Nicomachean Ethics; the rest differ in structure and argument. Scholars have long debated which came first, and many now see the Eudemian as an earlier form of Aristotle's ethical thought. Its discussions of happiness, voluntary action, friendship and the ideal of the noble and good person, and its final pages on god and contemplation, offer a distinctive view of how Aristotle's ethics developed.