His most important treatises include Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, De Anima ( On the Soul ) and Poetics.

In his works Constitution of Athens, Politics, and Nicomachean Ethics he explores different constitutions of his day, including those of Athens, Sparta, and Carthage.

But if life itself is good and pleasant (...) and if one who sees is conscious that he sees, one who hears that he hears, one who walks that he walks and similarly for all the other human activities there is a faculty that is conscious of their exercise, so that whenever we perceive, we are conscious that we perceive, and whenever we think, we are conscious that we think, and to be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious that we exist ... ( Nicomachean Ethics, 1170a25 ff.

* Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.

* Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

This was based on Aquinas ' conflation of natural law and natural right, the latter of which Aristotle posits in Book V of the Nicomachean Ethics (= Book IV of the Eudemian Ethics ).

His longest discussion of his theory of justice occurs in Nicomachean Ethics and begins by asking what sort of mean a just act is.

* A classification of emotion in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

According to some, Aquinas conflates the natural law and natural right, the latter of which Aristotle posits in Book V of the Nicomachean Ethics ( Book IV of the Eudemian Ethics ).

Nicomachean Ethics.

* Aristotle: Wrote his Politics as an extension of his Nicomachean Ethics.

While specific styles taught by different teachers, in the mode of Asian martial arts, cannot be excluded, it is very clear ( including in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics ) that the objective of a teacher of combat sports was to help each of his athletes to develop his personal style that would fit his strengths and weaknesses.

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

In Nicomachean Ethics ( Book 1 Chapter 5 ) Aristotle says that identifying the good with pleasure is to prefer a life suitable for beasts.

Particularly important ( not least for its influence upon others, both in their interpretation of Aristotle and in rehabilitating a neo-Aristotelian " practical philosophy ") was his radical reinterpretation of Book Six of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and several books of the Metaphysics.

( Nicomachean Ethics, VIII. 12. 1162a.

Aristotle, in The Nicomachean Ethics attributes to Eudoxus an argument in favor of hedonism, that is, that pleasure is the ultimate good that activity strives for.

This area of thought has attracted the strong interest of philosophers ever since Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics ( Third Book ).

As a quality, courage is discussed broadly in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, where its vice of shortage is cowardice and its vice of excess is recklessness.

In his work Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defined a virtue as a balance point between a deficiency and an excess of a trait.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives a lengthy account of the virtue phronesis ( Greek: ϕρονησιϛ ), which has traditionally been translated as " prudence ", although this has become increasingly problematic as the word has fallen out of common usage.

Bruni's translations of Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachean Ethics, as well as the pseudo-Aristotelean Economics, were widely distributed in manuscript and in print.

The classical treatment of the ethical importance of will is to be found in the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, in Books III ( chapters 1-5 ), and Book VII ( chapters 1-10 ).

In his Nicomachean Ethics, (§ 21 ; 1095a15 – 22 ) Aristotle says that everyone agrees that eudaimonia is the highest good for human beings, but that there is substantial disagreement on what sort of life counts as doing and living well ; i. e. eudaimon:

( See Aristotle ’ s discussion: Nicomachean Ethics, book 1. 10 – 1. 11.

460 – 370 BC ) and Epicurus ( 341 – 270 BC ); from which academic speculation proposes is the derivation of the logical architecture of Capital: Critique of Political Economy, because exchange value, the " syllogisms " ( C-M-C ' and M-C-M ') for simple commodity circulation, and the circulation of value as capital, derive from the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle.

The Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ), in the Nicomachean Ethics, noted such " market behaviour ", and said that the increased value of a commodity was relative to the buyer's demand for the commodity.

In Aristotelian Ethics, for example in the Nicomachean Ethics it is distinguished from other words for wisdom and intellectual virtues – such as episteme and techne – as the virtue of practical thought.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, written in 350 BCE, Aristotle stated that happiness ( also being well and doing well ) is the only thing that humans desire for its own sake, unlike riches, honor, health or friendship.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle used the term epikhairekakia ( ἐπιχαιρεκακία in Greek ) as part of a triad of terms, in which epikhairekakia stands as the opposite of phthonos ( φθόνος ), and nemesis ( νέμεσις ) occupies the mean.

* Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1175, 3-6 in The Basic Works of Aristotle, Richard McKeon ed.

Aristotle ’ s account is articulated in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics.

* Nicomachean Ethics, a collection of ten books by Greek philosopher Aristotle

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle, like Plato before him, argued that the pursuit of eudaimonia is an " activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue ", which further could only properly be exercised in the characteristic human community — the polis or city-state.

Notably, Maimonides offers a Jewish interpretation of Aristotle ( e. g., Nicomachean Ethics ), who enters into Jewish discourse through Islamic writings.

( Thus, “ NE II. 2, 1103b1 ” means “ Nicomachean Ethics, book II, chapter 2, Bekker page 1103, Bekker column b, line number 1 ”).

Although Aristotle was never an unquestioned authority ( he was more often than not a springboard for discussion, and his opinions were often discussed along those of others, or the teaching of Holy Scripture ), medieval lectures in physics consisted of reading Aristotle ’ s Physics, lessons in moral philosophy consisted of examinations of his Nicomachean Ethics ( and often his Politics ), and metaphysics was approached through his Metaphysics.

Albert ’ s commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics and the Economics also survive ( both unedited ), as well as several short mathematical texts, most notably Tractatus proportionum 1353.

The virtuous person takes pleasure in doing the right thing as a result of a proper training of moral and intellectual character ( See e. g., Nicomachean Ethics 1099a5 ).

Agamben's political thought was originally founded on his readings of Aristotle's Politics, Nicomachean Ethics, and treatise On the Soul, as well as the exegetical traditions concerning these texts in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Many parts of the Nicomachean Ethics are well known in their own right, within different fields.