— Aristotle
By Alex P. Vidal
Martin Ostwald has the best version of Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics.
I found Oswald's book in a mini-bookstore maintained by Hispanic librarians on 80th St. Roosevelt Ave in Queens.
The philosophical inquiry into the nature of the good life for a human being is Nicomachean Ethics.
Aristotle begins the work by positing that there exists some ultimate good toward which, in the final analysis, all human actions ultimately aim.
The necessary characteristics of the ultimate good are that it is complete, final, self-sufficient and continuous.
This good toward which all human actions implicity or explicitly aim is happiness in Greek, "eudaimonia," which can also be translated as blessedness or living well, and which is not a static state of being but a type of activity.
Of Aristotle's works, few have had as lasting an influence on subsequent Western thought as The Nicomachean Ethics.
‘ACTIVITY OF THE SOUL’
In it, he argues that happiness consists in “activity of the soul in accordance with virtue,” defining “virtue” as both moral (courage, generosity, and justice) and intellectual (knowledge, wisdom, and insight).
Aristotle also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue and the state.
Featuring a lucid translation, a new introduction, updated suggestions for further reading, and a chronology of Aristotle's life and works, this is the authoritative edition of a seminal intellectual masterpiece.
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