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- adjective Of or pertaining to Nicomachus (son of Aristotle).
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Ethics "he commented on while at Oxford, and in the lasts years of his life he was occupied with a translation of the" Nicomachean ".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Aristotle suggests in the "Nicomachean Ethics" that the influence runs the other way.
Why We're Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms John Garvey 2011
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In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle discusses how the best form of friendship involves a relationship between equals—one in which a genuinely reciprocal relationship is possible.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Even an intellect as powerful as Aristotle could argue quite cogently for the slave state being natural to some Book VII of "Nicomachean Ethics".
Matt J. Rossano: The Christian Revolution Matt J. Rossano 2011
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Anyone who has read Plato's "Republic" or Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" knows that philosophers have argued for millennia that human beings have the capacity to reason, but not that human beings dependably behave according to reason; for those are two different assertions.
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That term crops up cheerfully in the works of Aristotle (the Physics, 207a: 21, and the Nicomachean Ethics, 1153b: 16) and in Plato, specifically in the late dialogue Philebus (67a) in which Socrates speculates on the nature of the relationship between pleasure and knowledge, in my view the perfect combination.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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So it would seem that for someone interested in reading the Summa, it would be beneficial to first read Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and perhaps also On The Soul, Metaphysics, Rhetoric, Physics, and Politics.
Using grep and uniq to determine the influence of Aristotle on Aquinas Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Aristotle suggests in the "Nicomachean Ethics" that the influence runs the other way.
Why We're Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms John Garvey 2011
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So it would seem that for someone interested in reading the Summa, it would be beneficial to first read Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and perhaps also On The Soul, Metaphysics, Rhetoric, Physics, and Politics.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Even an intellect as powerful as Aristotle could argue quite cogently for the slave state being natural to some Book VII of "Nicomachean Ethics".
Matt J. Rossano: The Christian Revolution Matt J. Rossano 2011
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