Summary A process is a kind of transitional movement — all processes take time, aim at a certain end, and are complete only when that end is attained. Any given part of a process is incomplete and different in kind from the other parts and from the whole. Pleasure, like […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book X: Chapter IV – The True Nature of PleasureSummary and Analysis Book X: Chapter III – The Doctrine That Pleasure Is Evil
Summary [Analysis of this view and refutation of its main points.]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book X: Chapter III – The Doctrine That Pleasure Is EvilSummary and Analysis Book X: Chapter II – The Doctrine That Pleasure Is the Good
Summary [Analysis of the view that pleasure is the supreme good and refutation of its main points.]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book X: Chapter II – The Doctrine That Pleasure Is the GoodSummary and Analysis Book X: Chapter I – The Importance of Pleasure
Summary Love of pleasure is one of the most fundamental human instincts. Since the essential feature of good moral character is liking and disliking the right things, pleasure and pain are important tools in education. Pleasure and pain continue to act on a man throughout his life and can have […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book X: Chapter I – The Importance of PleasureSummary and Analysis Book IX: Analysis for Book IX
In this book we have a continuation of the discussion concerning friendship which occupied the greater portion of Book VIII. Friendship was, in Aristotle’s opinion, one of the most important achievements in the lives of good people. Its benefits were not confined to the individuals between whom the friendships were […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book IX: Analysis for Book IXSummary and Analysis Book IX: Chapter XII – The Value and Influence of Friendship
Summary Friendship is a community or partnership in the search for truth and the good. Every good man wishes to share with his friends that which forms the essence and goal of his life, and stands in the same relation to his friend as he does to himself. Through friendship […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book IX: Chapter XII – The Value and Influence of FriendshipSummary and Analysis Book IX: Chapter XI – Friends in Times of Adversity and Prosperity
Summary The company of friends is desirable in all circumstances. In time of bad fortune one needs friends to help him; in time of good fortune one needs friends with whom to share his prosperity.
Read more Summary and Analysis Book IX: Chapter XI – Friends in Times of Adversity and ProsperitySummary and Analysis Book IX: Chapter X – Should One Limit the Number of His Friends?
Summary While friendship is necessary for the attainment of happiness, it is superfluous and harmful to have more friends than are required to give proper scope to one’s life. The ideal number of friends cannot be fixed abstractly, but in general it should be the largest number with whom one […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book IX: Chapter X – Should One Limit the Number of His Friends?Summary and Analysis Book IX: Chapter IX – Friendship and Happiness
Summary Friendship is essential for happiness and the good life because friends give a good man the opportunity to do generous and virtuous deeds. Friendship also helps a man to develop his own moral character by his relationship with other good men, for a good man can be truly good […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book IX: Chapter IX – Friendship and HappinessSummary and Analysis Book IX: Chapter VIII – Self-Love
Summary There are good and bad forms of self-love, depending on what sort of self it is that one loves. Lustful and greedy men, whose life is given over to the satisfaction of passion and desire (i.e., the irrational parts of their souls) are self-lovers in the bad sense. To […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book IX: Chapter VIII – Self-Love