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Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
350 BC
translated by W. D. Ross
Book 1
Chapter 1
[Good as an end]
Chapter 2
[Good for society]
Chapter 3
[Knowledge of the good]
Chapter 4
[First principles]
Chapter 5
[Types of life]
Chapter 6
[Good itself]
Chapter 7
[Good for something else]
Chapter 8
[Virtue and happiness]
Chapter 9
[Source of virtue]
Chapter 10
[Defining happiness]
Chapter 11
[Happiness depends on happiness of others]
Chapter 12
[Happiness as activity of soul]
Chapter 13
[Kinds of virtue]
Book 2
Chapter 1
[Exercising virtue]
Chapter 2
[Nature of right action]
Chapter 3
[Pleasure and pain]
Chapter 4
[How virtuous acts must be done]
Chapter 5
[Virtues are states of character]
Chapter 6
[Virtue concerned with mean action]
Chapter 7
[Particulars of mean action]
Chapter 8
[Three kinds of disposition]
Chapter 9
[Erring on side of lesser evil]
Book 3
Chapter 1
[Virtue not action under compulsion or ignorance]
Chapter 2
[Virtue involves choice, based on rational principle and thought]
Chapter 3
[Thought must be about available means]
Chapter 4
[Pleasure and pain affect perception of what is good]
Chapter 5
[Extent of responsibility]
Chapter 6
[Virtuous fear and fearlessness]
Chapter 7
[Courage and rational fear]
Chapter 8
[Five things sometimes called courage]
Chapter 9
[Courage as endurance of pain]
Chapter 10
[Intemperence involves bodily pleasures, but not all of them]
Chapter 11
[Temperance involves moderate appetites]
Chapter 12
[Temperance involves rational principle]
Book 4
Chapter 1
[Liberality]
Chapter 2
[Magnificence]
Chapter 3
[Pride]
Chapter 4
[Honour]
Chapter 5
[Good Temper]
Chapter 6
[Flattery and Churlishness]
Chapter 7
[Boastfullness]
Chapter 8
[Tact]
Chapter 9
[Shame]
Book 5
Chapter 1
[Justice and Injustice]
Chapter 2
[More than One kind of Justice]
Chapter 3
[Justice is Proportion]
Chapter 4
[The Rectificatory]
Chapter 5
[Reciprocity]
Chapter 6
[Justice in Different Spheres]
Chapter 7
[Political Justice ]
Chapter 8
[Voluntary and Involuntary Acts]
Chapter 9
[Suffering Injustice]
Chapter 10
[Equity and the Equitable]
Chapter 11
[Can a Man Treat Himself Unjustly?]
Book 6
Chapter 1
[The Dictates of the Right Rule]
Chapter 2
[Sensation, Reason and Desire]
Chapter 3
[Scientific Knowledge]
Chapter 4
[Art]
Chapter 5
[Practical Wisdom]
Chapter 6
[Scientific Knowledge]
Chapter 7
[Wisdom]
Chapter 8
[Political Wisdom and Practical Wisdom]
Chapter 9
[Inquiry and Deliberation]
Chapter 10
[Understanding]
Chapter 11
[Judgement]
Chapter 12
[Philosophic and Practical Wisdom]
Chapter 13
[Natural Virtue and Virtue in the Strict Sense]
Book 7
Chapter 1
[Three Kinds of Moral States to be Avoided]
Chapter 2
[Incontinence and Continence]
Chapter 3
[Whether Incontinent People Act Knowingly or Not]
Chapter 4
[Is There Any One Who is Incontinent Without Qualification]
Chapter 5
[Self Indulgence and Temperance]
Chapter 6
[Incontinence in Respect of Anger]
Chapter 7
[Pleasures and Pains and Appetites and Aversions]
Chapter 8
[The Self-Indulgent Man]
Chapter 9
[Some Who Fail to Abide by Their Resolutions]
Chapter 10
[Practical Wisdom not by Knowing Only but Also Acting]
Chapter 11
[The Study of Pleasure and Pain]
Chapter 12
[Two Kinds of Good]
Chapter 13
[All things, Both Brutes and Men, Pursue Pleasure]
Chapter 14
[Bodily Pleasures]
Book 8
Chapter 1
[Friendship]
Chapter 2
[Not Everything Seems to be Loved but only the Lovable]
Chapter 3
[Three Kinds of Friendship]
Chapter 4
[Perfect Friendship]
Chapter 5
[The Friendship of the Good]
Chapter 6
[Sour and Elderly people]
Chapter 7
[Inequality Between the Parties]
Chapter 8
[The Wish to be Loved ]
Chapter 9
[Friendship and Justice]
Chapter 10
[Three Kinds of Constitution]
Chapter 11
[The Constitutions, Friendship and Justice]
Chapter 12
[Association]
Chapter 13
[Utility]
Chapter 14
[Superiority]
Book 9
Chapter 1
[Friendships Between Dissimilars]
Chapter 2
[Preference]
Chapter 3
[Breaking off a Friendships]
Chapter 4
[Man's Relations to Himself]
Chapter 5
[Goodwill is a Friendly Sort of Relation]
Chapter 6
[Unanimity]
Chapter 7
[Benefactors]
Chapter 8
[Should a Man Love Himself Most?]
Chapter 9
[Does a Happy Man Need Friends?]
Chapter 10
[Should We Make as Many Friends as Possible?]
Chapter 11
[Do We Need Friends More in Good Fortune or in Bad?]
Chapter 12
[Living Together]
Book 10
Chapter 1
[Pleasure]
Chapter 2
[Pleasure, Pain, Good and Evil]
Chapter 3
[Is Pleasure a Quality?]
Chapter 4
[Pleasure is Whole]
Chapter 5
[Different Kinds of Pleasure]
Chapter 6
[Happiness]
Chapter 7
[Happiness and Virtue]
Chapter 8
[Perfect Happiness is a Contemplative Activity]
Chapter 9
[Encouraging Virtue]
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