Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics was until recently treated as a poor
cousin of the better-known Nicomachean Ethics - poor enough even to
have to borrow its three central books (IV-VI) from the latter. The
work has now emerged from its relative obscurity; many scholars,
indeed, now claim - on the basis of what appear to be sound
statistical arguments - that it is the Nicomachean Ethics that has to
borrow its Books V-VII from the Eudemian. This critical edition of
Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics treats this particular issue as
unresolved, including as it does only five books (I-III, VII-VIII),
but without prejudice, the three disputed books being treated as
already available in the edition of the Nicomachean Ethics in the same
series. The new edition of the Eudemian Ethics completes the task,
begun by Walzer and Mingay's 1991 Oxford Classical Text edition, of
restoring the corrupted text on the basis of a new understanding of
the relationships between the extant Greek manuscripts. The three
primary manuscripts identified by Harlfinger, along with a fourth
identified by the present editor, Christopher Rowe, have been freshly
and fully collated, a more extensive apparatus criticus has been
provided, and substantial new progress has been made in the
restoration of the text. A separate companion volume (Aristotelica:
Studies on the text of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics) contains the
arguments for every important editorial choice made in the restoration
of the text.
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9780192872494
Publisert
2023
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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