Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a classic work of philosophy, especially in virtue ethics. I hope this video can help guide you through the book and help you read it for yourself.

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle dedicates significant attention to the role of friendship in a good life. He identifies three types of friendship: utility, pleasure, and virtue, with the ...

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Virtue ethics is person rather than action based. It looks at the moral character of the person carrying out an action. A right act is the action a virtuous person would do in the same circumstances.

But that 'virtue' was enough for them to be treated as human beings. Aristotle doesn't provide any sensible practical method of recognising natural slaves, and without that it's inevitable that ...

But in the Aristotelian tradition, none of these habits enjoys the honorific “virtue.” The reasons for this, I think, are not very good. They trade on faulty assumptions about the good person being ...