DiscoverIn Our Time: PhilosophyAristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Update: 2023-11-306
Share

Description

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on what happiness means and how to live a good life. Aristotle (384-322BC) explored these almost two and a half thousand years ago in what became known as his Nicomachean Ethics. His audience then were the elite in Athens as, he argued, if they knew how to live their lives well then they could better rule the lives of others. While circumstances and values have changed across the centuries, Aristotle's approach to answering those questions has fascinated philosophers ever since and continues to do so.

With

Angie Hobbs
Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield

Roger Crisp
Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

And

Sophia Connell
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London

Producer: Simon Tillotson

Reading list:

J.L. Ackrill, Aristotle the Philosopher (Oxford University Press, 1981)

Aristotle (ed. and trans. Roger Crisp), Nicomachean Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Aristotle (trans. Terence Irwin), Nicomachean Ethics (Hackett Publishing Co., 2019)

Aristotle (trans. H. Rackham), Nicomachean Ethics: Loeb Classical Library (William Heinemann Ltd, 1962)

Jonathan Barnes, Aristotle: Past Masters series (Oxford University Press, 1982)

Gerard J. Hughes, Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Routledge, 2013)

Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)

Michael Pakaluk, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

A. Rorty (ed.), Essays on Aristotle's Ethics (University of California Press, 1981)

Nancy Sherman, The Fabric of Character: Aristotle's Theory of Virtue (Clarendon Press, 1989)

J.O. Urmson, Aristotle’s Ethics (John Wiley & Sons, 1988)

Comments 
In Channel
Philippa Foot

Philippa Foot

2024-06-1301:00:07

Panpsychism

Panpsychism

2024-02-2255:59

Condorcet

Condorcet

2024-02-0852:17

Elizabeth Anscombe

Elizabeth Anscombe

2023-07-2056:12

Solon the Lawgiver

Solon the Lawgiver

2023-04-2052:28

Mercantilism

Mercantilism

2023-04-1358:35

Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe

2023-03-0254:38

Plato's Atlantis

Plato's Atlantis

2022-10-2055:20

Comenius

Comenius

2022-06-1657:53

Charisma

Charisma

2022-04-1453:24

The Arthashastra

The Arthashastra

2022-03-3157:20

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

2022-02-1051:43

Plato's Gorgias

Plato's Gorgias

2021-11-2551:15

Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch

2021-10-2155:28

loading
00:00
00:00
x

0.5x

0.8x

1.0x

1.25x

1.5x

2.0x

3.0x

Sleep Timer

Off

End of Episode

5 Minutes

10 Minutes

15 Minutes

30 Minutes

45 Minutes

60 Minutes

120 Minutes

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

BBC Radio 4