Major Works

• Politics

  - Aristotle. The Politics. Translated by Carnes Lord. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
  Excerpt: Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community,… More

• Nicomachean Ethics

  - Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by Robert Bartlett and Susan Collins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
  First lines (W.D. Ross translation): Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. But a certain difference is… More

Commentary

• Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” Book VII

  - Natali, Carlo. Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” Book VII. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  Excerpt: ” Book VII  appears to be the sum of two different logoi,  the first dedicated to weakness of the will and other on desirable states of mind, and the second to pleasure. Each logos  has the aspect of an independent short treatise, with its… More