The Nicomachean Ethics — trans. F. H. Peters (1881)
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9. Continence and incontinence not identical with keeping and breaking a resolution 235
10. Prudence is not, but cleverness is, compatible with incontinence 237
Chapters 11-14. PLEASURE.
11. We must now discuss pleasure. Opinions about it ... 239
12. Answers to arguments against goodness of pleasure.
Ambiguity of good and pleasant. Pleasure not a transition, but unimpeded activity 240
13. Pleasure is good, and the pleasure that consists in the highest activity is the good. All admit that happiness is pleasant. Bodily pleasures not the only pleasures 243
14. Of the bodily pleasures, and the distinction between naturally and accidentally pleasant 246
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BOOK VIII.
FKIENDSHIP OE LOVE.
CHAP.
1. Uses of friendship. Differences of opinion about it
2. Three motives of friendship. Friendship defined ...
3. Three kinds of friendship corresponding to the three motives. Perfect friendship is that whose motive is the good
4. The others are imperfect copies of this
5. Intercourse necessary to the maintenance of friendship
6. Impossible to have many true friends
7. Of friendship between unequal persons, and its rule of proportion. Limits within which this is possible
8. Of loving and being loved
9. Every society has its own form of friendship as of justice.
All societies are summed up in civil society
10. Of the three forms of constitution
11. Of the corresponding forms of friendship
12. Of the friendship of kinsmen and comrades
13. Of the terms of interchange and quarrels hence arising in equal friendships
14. Of the same in unequal friendships
BOOK IX.
FRIENDSHIP OR LO\E— Continued.
1. Of the rule of proportion in dissimilar friendships ... ;.. 286
2. Of the conflict of duties 289
3. Of the dissolution of friendships 292
4. A man's relation to his friend like his relation to himself 294
5. Friendship and good-will 297
6. Friendship and unanimity 299
7. Why benefactors love more than they are loved 300
8. In what sense it is right to love one's self 303
9. Why a happy man needs friends 307
10. Of the proper number of friends 312
11. Friends needed both in prosperity and adversity ... "... 314
12. Friendship is realized in living together 316
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BOOK X.
Chapters 1-5. PLEASURE.
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1. Beacons for discussing pleasure 318
2. Arguments of Eudoxus that pleasure is the good 319
3. Argument that it is not a quality; that it is not determined ; that it is a motion or coming into being. Pleasures differ in kind 322
4. Pleasure defined : its relation to activity 325
5. Pleasures differ according to the activities. The standard is the good man 330
Chapters 6-9. CONCLUSION.
6. Happiness not amusement, but life 335
7. Of the speculative life as happiness in the highest sense ... 337
8. Of the practical life as happiness in a lower sense, and of the relation between the two. Prosperity, how far needed 341
9. How is the end to be realized ? 316
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THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF
AEISTOTLE.
BOOK I.
THE END.
1. Every art and every kind of inquiry, and like- inauhedoet wise everv act and purpose, seems to aim at some tome good good : and so it has been well said that the good is »«»n». that at which everything aims.
But a difference is observable among these aims or ends. What is aimed at is sometimes the exercise of a faculty, sometimes a certain result beyond that exercise. And where there is an end beyond the act, there the result is better than the exercise of the faculty.
Xuw since there are many kinds of actions and many aits and sciences, it follows that there are many ends also; e.g. health is the end of medicine, ships of shipbuilding, victory of the art of war, and wealth of economy.
But when several of these are subordinated to
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