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# 200 pages of deep translation 100+ pages of detailed notes Comprehensive glossary & appendix Nicomachean Ethics

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> 📖 Elevate your ethical IQ with Aristotle’s ultimate guide to flourishing!

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## Key Features

- • **Unlock Aristotle’s Vocabulary:** A full glossary decodes key Greek terms for deeper understanding.
- • **Expanded Insights in Third Edition:** Revised translation plus new appendix with related Aristotle texts enrich your study.
- • **Navigate Complex Philosophy Effortlessly:** Clear headings and explanatory notes guide you through challenging passages.
- • **Master Aristotle’s Ethics with Precision:** Irwin’s edition offers the most reader-friendly aids in any modern English translation.
- • **Ideal for Serious Students & Thought Leaders:** Designed for those craving more than a surface-level grasp of ethical philosophy.

## Overview

Terence Irwin’s Nicomachean Ethics is a meticulously crafted paperback edition featuring a 200-page translation, over 100 pages of explanatory notes, a comprehensive glossary, and an appendix with related Aristotle texts. This third edition is tailored for serious students seeking a rigorous, in-depth understanding of Aristotle’s foundational work on virtue, happiness, and human flourishing.

## Description

Terence Irwin's edition of the Nicomachean Ethics offers more aids to the reader than are found in any modern English translation. It includes an Introduction, headings to help the reader follow the argument, explanatory notes on difficult or important passages, and a full glossary explaining Aristotle's technical terms. The Third Edition offers additional revisions of the translation as well as revised and expanded versions of the notes, glossary, and Introduction. Also new is an appendix featuring translated selections from related texts of Aristotle.

Review: Ouvrage plutôt scolaire - La traduction en anglais d'Irwin est solide, mais son commentaire est loin d'égaler en richesse et profondeur celui de Gauthier et Jolif en français, ou même celui de Bodeus dans le format poche de Garnier-Flammarion.
Review: IMO this is the best translation for all audiences - Irwin (the translator) says in the into that this version is specifically for the serious student, not the person trying to get a general feeling for the work. I would consider myself in between - reading this book on my journey through the great works, but wanting a deeper understanding than a wiki or a short video. I was very satisfied by this volume and got a lot out of the experience. In general, Nicomachean Ethics describes Aristotle's pathway to maximize the happiness/living well/flourishing ("eudaimonia") of an individual. It is a practical exercise where eudaimonia is identified as the ultimate human end based on informal survey. The qualities that maximize eudaimonia are then inductively reasoned back to first principles. These principles include the virtues of character (and the rest of the soul's nonrational parts) and the virtues of the soul's rational parts. Book X wraps the investigation up and transitions into a politics informed through these ethics. The translation itself is 200 pages, along with a 30 page intro, over 100 pages of notes, a dictionary of common terms, and translated excerpts from Aristotle's other works that tangentially connect to this one. I ended up using the dictionary quite a lot. Aristotle is very specific with his choice of words and those words do not translate cleanly from Greek to English (ex: happiness, state, action, virtue, etc). The dictionary helped me sort everything out. Reader be warned: Aristotle is challenging to read, mostly due to the aforementioned vocabulary. This is a trait of Aristotle himself; I am currently working through Reeves' translation of Politics and the challenging prose remains consistent despite the different translator. The Socratic dialogues of Plato were comparatively easy as Plato often repeats himself or rephrases his points in what turns out to be an excellent teaching tool. By contrast, Aristotle's works are lecture notes that spend much of the time breezing through the main points and only making detours to rebut "puzzles" that challenge his argument (likely the results of past conversations of his with students or friends). He will summarize his main points, but it's very useful to track the flow of the arguments on paper to review before the next reading session.

## Features

- Binding: paperback
- Language: english

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #129,653 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #345 in Ethics & Morality #385 in Western Philosophy #655 in Philosophy Movements |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 412 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐ Ouvrage plutôt scolaire
*by E***N on 12 August 2020*

La traduction en anglais d'Irwin est solide, mais son commentaire est loin d'égaler en richesse et profondeur celui de Gauthier et Jolif en français, ou même celui de Bodeus dans le format poche de Garnier-Flammarion.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ IMO this is the best translation for all audiences
*by J***B on 13 September 2021*

Irwin (the translator) says in the into that this version is specifically for the serious student, not the person trying to get a general feeling for the work. I would consider myself in between - reading this book on my journey through the great works, but wanting a deeper understanding than a wiki or a short video. I was very satisfied by this volume and got a lot out of the experience. In general, Nicomachean Ethics describes Aristotle's pathway to maximize the happiness/living well/flourishing ("eudaimonia") of an individual. It is a practical exercise where eudaimonia is identified as the ultimate human end based on informal survey. The qualities that maximize eudaimonia are then inductively reasoned back to first principles. These principles include the virtues of character (and the rest of the soul's nonrational parts) and the virtues of the soul's rational parts. Book X wraps the investigation up and transitions into a politics informed through these ethics. The translation itself is 200 pages, along with a 30 page intro, over 100 pages of notes, a dictionary of common terms, and translated excerpts from Aristotle's other works that tangentially connect to this one. I ended up using the dictionary quite a lot. Aristotle is very specific with his choice of words and those words do not translate cleanly from Greek to English (ex: happiness, state, action, virtue, etc). The dictionary helped me sort everything out. Reader be warned: Aristotle is challenging to read, mostly due to the aforementioned vocabulary. This is a trait of Aristotle himself; I am currently working through Reeves' translation of Politics and the challenging prose remains consistent despite the different translator. The Socratic dialogues of Plato were comparatively easy as Plato often repeats himself or rephrases his points in what turns out to be an excellent teaching tool. By contrast, Aristotle's works are lecture notes that spend much of the time breezing through the main points and only making detours to rebut "puzzles" that challenge his argument (likely the results of past conversations of his with students or friends). He will summarize his main points, but it's very useful to track the flow of the arguments on paper to review before the next reading session.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ correcto
*by C***N on 28 September 2025*

correcto

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