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Article: Practices of Reason: Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics.'
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
- Author:
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Reeve's new book will be hailed by scholars and prove welcome both to senior undergraduates in classics and to graduates in philosophy who also face a major examination on the Nicomachean Ethics. This masterpiece of Aristotle can at first overwhelm us with a great bundle of partly ordinary, partly technical uses of such terms as theos, phronesis, endoxa, nous, episteme, eudaimonia, phainomena, philia, aporiai, and hedone. Reeve tries generously to clarify all these and more, also to relate their meanings to each other. Scholars with whom he most likes to interact include J. L. Ackrill, J. M. Cooper, T. H. Irwin, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Kraut. Behind the exposition ...