The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics

Jon Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Ontario. His publications include Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge, 2003), Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2011) and Spinoza and the Stoics (Cambridge, 2015).

• Introduction Jon Miller; 1. The Nicomachean Ethics in Hellenistic philosophy: a hidden treasure? Karen Margrethe Nielsen; 2. The transformation of Aristotle's ethics in Roman philosophy Christopher Gill; 3. Aristotelian ethics in Plotinus Dominic J. O'Meara; 4. St Augustine's appropriation and transformation of Aristotelian eudaimonia Michael W. Tkacz; 5. The Arabic and Islamic reception of the Nicomachean Ethics Anna Akasoy; 6. Maimonides' appropriation of Aristotle's ethics Kenneth Seeskin; 7. The relation of prudence and synderesis to happiness in the medieval commentaries on Aristotle's ethics Anthony Celano; 8. Using Seneca to read Aristotle: the curious methods of Buridan's ethics Jack Zupko; 9. Aristotle's ethics in the Renaissance David Lines; 10. The end of ends? Aristotelian themes in early modern ethics Donald Rutherford; 11. Affective conflict and virtue: Hume's answer to Aristotle Kate Abramson; 12. Aristotle and Kant on ethics Manfred Kuehn; 13. The fall and rise of Aristotelian ethics in Anglo-American moral philosophy: nineteenth and twentieth century Jennifer Welchman.

'As this engaging volume makes clear, different periods in the history of the reception of Aristotle's ethical theorizing have unsurprisingly drawn different morals from his teachings, as they were made available from the Nicomachean Ethics and other sources. As the authors of this fascinating volume attest, by comparing our own approaches and preoccupations to those of earlier encounters with Aristotle's ethical writings, we stand to learn a great [deal] about our own philosophical practices and preferences - and, of course, about Aristotelian ethical theory itself.' Christopher Shields, University of Oxford