Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most important ethical treatises ever written and has had a profound influence on the subsequent development of ethics and moral psychology. This collection of newly-commissioned essays written by both senior and younger scholars in the field presents a thorough and close examination of the work. The essays address a broad range of issues including the compositional integrity of the Ethics the nature of desire the value of emotions happiness and the virtues. The result is a volume which will challenge and advance the scholarship on the Ethics establishing new ways of viewing and appreciating the work for all scholars of Aristotle.