Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. Foot, P. A great way to understand morals and virtues that you might want to develop in your life, and seek to understand in yourself and others. Aristotle is the father of virtue ethics, and virtue ethics is hot. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. 1. In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle says explicitly that one must begin with what is familiar to us, and "the that" or "the fact that" (NE I.1095b2-13). Aristotle. 20, translated by H. Rackham. Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text. In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle teaches that there are three kinds of things in the soul: passions, faculties, and states of character. Each of the virtues below is meant in moderation. The Aristotelian Ethics all aim to begin with approximate but uncontroversial starting points. In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that one cannot have ethical virtue without dianoetical virtue or vice versa. Aristotle was very clear that doing too much is just as bad as not doing enough. In his Third Logical Investigation, Husserl distinguishes between independent parts and non-independent parts of wholes. Aristotle's starting point. Fine things are the objects of praise, base things of blame; and at the head of the fine stand the virtues, at the head of the base the vices; [2] consequently the virtues are objects of praise, and also the causes of the virtues are objects of praise, and the things that accompany the virtues and that result from them, and their works, while the opposite are the objects of blame. Yet Aristotle’s accounts of the individual virtues remain opaque, for most contemporary commentators of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics have focused upon other matters. ... (1978) Virtues and vices and other essays in moral philosophy. Aristotle’s 12 virtues: from courage to magnificence, patience to wit. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1952. By contrast, this book takes Aristotle’s detailed description of the individual virtues to be central to his ethical theory.