Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, Vol. 6: With Essays, Notes, and Translation

Excerpt from Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics With Essays, Notes, and Translation, Vol. 6Any attempt to throw fresh light on the meaning of the sixth book of the Nz'comadzean Bi/zz'es at once brings the inquirer face to face with the problem of the book's author ship. Such problems are not-often easy of solution, and this one is amongst the hardest of its class. There is indeed one circumstance that lessens the labour of the search in one direction, though it is at the cost of greatly increased difficulty in reaching a final answer to the whole question. It is not necessary, in order to discover whether this book is really Eudemian or Nicomachean, to know the relative frequency with which the words or phrases or small turns of thought that are found in it are found also in the undoubtedly Eude.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.