ETHICA NICOMACHEA

2017 Reprint of 1894 Edition Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition software  Text in Latin  The Nicomachean Ethics as it is known in English is Aristotle39s bestknown work on ethics The work which plays a preeminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics consists of ten books originally separate scrolls and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the LyceumThe theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato Aristotle39s friend and teacher of how men should best live  The Nicomachean Ethics is widely considered one of the most important historical philosophical works  It had an important impact upon the European Middle Ages becoming one of the core works of medieval philosophy It therefore indirectly became critical in the development of all modern philosophy as well as European law and theology   Ingram Bywater edited this edition which retains a following more than a century after its original publication