9. Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Aristotle on Eudaimonia 7
6. 2. Aristotle on Eudaimonia 15
7. 3. The Metaphysical and Psychological Basis of Aristotle's Ethics 35
8. 4. Self-Movers 55
9. 5. Aristotle on Learning to Be Good 69
10. 6. Aristotle on Action 93
11. 7. Being Properly Affected: Virtues and Feelings in Aristotle's Ethics 103
12. 8. Reason and Responsibility in Aristotle 117
13. 9. Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean 157
14. 10. Courage as a Mean 171
15. 11. Justice as a Virtue 189
16. 12. Aristotle on the Role of Intellect in Virtue 201
17. 13. Deliberation and Practical Reason 221
18. 14. Weakness of Will Commensurability, and the Objects of Deliberation and Desire 241
19. 15. Akrasia and Pleasure: Nicomachean Ethics Book 7 267
20. 16. Aristotle on Pleasure and Goodness 285
21. 17. Aristotle on Friendship 301
22. 18. The Good Man and the Good for Man in Aristotle's Ethics 341
23. 19. The Role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Ethics 359
24. 20. The Place of Contemplation in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 377
25. 21. Shame, Separateness, and Political Unity: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato 395
26. Contributors 437