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Main description: This accessible and innovative essay on Aristotle, based on fresh translations of a wide selection of his writings, challenges received interpretations of his accounts of practical wisdom, action, and contemplation and of their places in the happiest human life.

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Nicomachean Ethics -- Book 1 -- 1.1: Goods and ends -- 1.2: Ethics is a sort of politics -- 1.3: Exactness in ethics -- 1.4: Views about happiness -- 1.5: Three sorts of lives -- 1.6: Plato on the good -- 1.7: Completeness, self-sufficiency, and the human function -- 1.8: The function argument defended -- 1.9: How happiness is achieved -- 1.10: When to count a human being happy -- 1.11: Death and happiness -- 1.12: Is happiness praiseworthy or estimable? -- 1.13: The soul and its virtues -- Book 2 -- 2.1: The importance of habit -- 2.2: Ethics is a practical science -- 2.3: Pleasure and pain -- 2.4: Action and character -- 2.5: Virtue of character defined (1) -- 2.6: Virtue of character defined (2) -- 2.7: Individual virtues of character -- 2.8: Means and extremes -- 2.9: Achieving the mean -- Book 3 -- 3.1: Voluntary and involuntary action -- 3.2: Deliberate choice -- 3.3: Deliberation -- 3.4: Wish -- 3.5: Character and end -- 3.6: Courage (1) -- 3.7: Courage (2) -- 3.8: Courage-like conditions -- 3.9: Courage, pleasure, and pain -- 3.10: Temperance (1) -- 3.11: Temperance (2) -- 3.12: Intemperance -- Book 4 -- 4.1: Generosity -- 4.2: Magnificence -- 4.3: Greatness of soul -- 4.4: Nameless virtue concerned with honor -- 4.5: Mild-manneredness -- 4.6: Being ingratiating and being disagreeable -- 4.7: Truthfulness -- 4.8: Wit -- 4.9: Shame -- Book 5 -- 5.1: Sorts of justice -- 5.2: Special justice and general justice -- 5.3: Distributive justice -- 5.4: Rectificatory justice -- 5.5: Justice in exchange -- 5.6: Political justice -- 5.7: Natural justice and legal justice -- 5.8: Voluntary and involuntary justice and injustice -- 5.9: Puzzles about doing and suffering unjust actions -- 5.10: Decency.