Nicomachean Ethics is arguably Aristotle's best known work on ethics. The work consists of ten books which originally were his lecture notes at the Lyceum that were later edited by his son, Nicomachus. Throughout the work, Aristotle spends the majority of his books providing his account of what he believes to be human beings' ultimate goal, one that is self-sufficient and absolute final ... important end, or the ultimate end. Thus, for a goal to become ultimate, it must be achievable by man, "always be desirable in itself and never for the sake of something else." (Aristotle book. 1, chapter....

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... quot;. The criteria, namely the aesthetic, dealt with the "general intellectual distinction". This has resulted in value judgement, particularly to the non-great-books. Social background, linguistic, ideology, and other conditional circumstances, then, had no means. Third, the term of 'literature' ought to be limited at ... It can be said that Plato had a very dim view of imitation art due to an obsession with truth or "forms". In Books II and III this claim can hardly be justified, however; Plato does not condemn all imitation, but that imitation which is harmful to the ... mimesi...

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... science", politike tis (I.2.1094b11). At several points, the Politics looks back to the conception of the highest human good worked out in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the concluding chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics (X.9) looks forward to the Politics, culminating in a list of questions about political systems which corresponds reasonably well to the questions he addresses in the ... review any sound remarks our predecessors have made on particular topics." Book III.1-13: city and citizen: definitions, good man vs. good citizen, classification of constitutions, conceptions of political j...

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