Among the works on ethics in the Aristotelian corpus, there is
no serious dispute among scholars that the Eudemian Ethics is
authentic. The Eudemian Ethics is increasingly read and used by
scholars as a useful support and confirmation and sometimes
contrast to the Nicomachean Ethics. Yet, it remains a largely
neglected work in the study of Aristotle's ethics, both among
scholars and moral philosophers.
Peter L. P. Simpson provides an analytical outline of the entire
work together with summaries of each individual section, making the
overall structure and detailed argument clear. His translation and
explanatory notes include the common books that the Eudemian Ethics
shares with the Nicomachean. This translation contains renderings
of words and phrases, and proposals for emending the text that
differ from what other translators and scholars have adopted.
This translation is literal, without expansion or paraphrase,
and yet also readable. A readable but literal translation is
necessary because in the Eudemian Ethics, more than usual in
Aristotle's writings, the logic of the argumentation can turn on
the peculiar wording or order. Simpson explains the argumentation
where necessary in notes and separate explanatory comments. This
book is a fresh, twenty-first-century rendition of the work of one
of the most eminent philosophers of all time.
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