{"product_id":"2940148963646","title":"The Ethics of Aristotle (Annotated)","description":"This edition is annotated, with additional information about Aristotle.  It has been formatted for your NOOK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAristotle considered ethics to be a practical rather than theoretical study, i.e., one aimed at becoming good and doing good rather than knowing for its own sake. He wrote several treatises on ethics, including most notably, the Nicomachean Ethics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAristotle taught that virtue has to do with the proper function (ergon) of a thing. An eye is only a good eye in so much as it can see, because the proper function of an eye is sight. Aristotle reasoned that humans must have a function specific to humans, and that this function must be an activity of the psuchē (normally translated as soul) in accordance with reason (logos). Aristotle identified such an optimum activity of the soul as the aim of all human deliberate action, eudaimonia, generally translated as \"happiness\" or sometimes \"well being\". To have the potential of ever being happy in this way necessarily requires a good character (ēthikē aretē), often translated as moral (or ethical) virtue (or excellence).","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180451741936,"sku":"2940148963646","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148963646_p0.jpg?v=1763710595","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148963646","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}