Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    Classical · Greek

    Nicomachean Ethics

    Aristotle

    Aristotle's lectures on the good life: virtue as a practice, friendship, pleasure and contemplation, in English translation from the Perseus Digital Library. Translated by Harris Rackham.

    Chapters
    10
    Variants
    20
    Genre
    Philosophy
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Book 1prose
    2. 02Book 2prose
    3. 03Book 3prose
    4. 04Book 4prose
    5. 05Book 5prose
    6. 06Book 6prose
    7. 07Book 7prose
    8. 08Book 8prose
    9. 09Book 9prose
    10. 10Book 10prose

    In the atlas

    fully mapped

    Figures58

    Homer · God · Heracleitus · Socrates · Euripides · Plato · Priam · Solon · Zeus · Anaxagoras

    Ideas155

    Justice · Self-control · Pleasure · Happiness · Moral virtue · Profligacy · The Good · Buffoonery · Courage · Cowardice

    Places

    Sparta · Megara · Persia · Scythia

    Groups44

    The gods · Spartans · The State · Pythagoreans · Master and slave · Mercenaries · Princes and potentates · Sophists · Adulterers · Argives

    Events14

    Adultery example · Battle at the temple of Hermes · Brigand ransom case · Building a house/temple · Harvest-festivals · Loan/creditor exception case · Olympic Games · Paralysis · Shared pursuits of friends (drinking, dicing, athletics, hunting, philosophy) · Sleep

    Objects

    Money · A house, ten minae, and a bedstead · Delos inscription · Fire · Golden arms for bronze · Margites · The Lesbian rule · Wealth

    Animals

    Cranes · Hare · Hounds · Lions · Mountain goat

    84 citations · 168 themes · 458 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.