This new edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is an accurate readable & accessible translation of one of the world's greatest ethical works Based on lectures Aristotle gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy & has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavour It offers seminal practically oriented discussions of many central ethical issues including the role of luck in human well-being moral education responsibility courage justice moral weakness friendship & pleasure with an emphasis on the exercise of virtue as the key to human happiness This second edition offers an updated editor's introduction & suggestions for further reading & incorporates the line numbers as well as the page numbers of the Greek text With its emphasis on accuracy & readability it will enable readers without Greek to come as close as possible to Aristotle's work