Aristotle's inquiry into happiness, virtue, and the good life as the fulfillment of human nature. The cornerstone of Western ethics.
Books mentioned in The Nicomachean Ethics (1)
Alcmaeon by Euripides: “how absurd, for instance, are the pleas of compulsion with which Alcmaeon in Euripides’ play excuses his matricide!”
Books that mention The Nicomachean Ethics (3)
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel: “we need to consider the account of virtue and the good life that Aristotle presents in the Nicomachean Ethics.”
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes: “Lastly, the Metaphysiques, Ethiques, and Politiques of Aristotle, the frivolous Distinctions, barbarous Terms, and obscure Language of the Schoolmen, taught in the Universities… serve them to keep these Errors from being detected…”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “Aristotle in his Ethics holds felix idemque sapiens, to be wise and happy, are reciprocal terms,”