PHI2302

Guided Studies in Western Philosophical Classics

2009-2010 | Second Term
Philosophy Major
H 03-05
UCA 103
Wang Qingjie

PHI2302 Guided Studies in Western Philosophical Classics: Nicomachean Ethics

I. Course Description

This course will devote to an extensive reading of his Nicomachean Ethics . Important themes such as Eudaimonia (happiness), good, virtue, the doctrine of the mean, justice, wisdom, friendship, pleasure, etc. will be discussed. There is a combination of teacher’s lectures, students” presentations and discussions.

 

II. Requirement and grading

All students are required 1) to finish the assigned readings and to participate in classroom discussions actively (10 %); 2) to have two presentations and essays (45% each).

 

III. Main Text

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics , trans. by Terence Irwin, ( Indianapolis : Hackett Pub.)

 

IV. Bibliography and Additional Readings :

  1. Aristotle The Complete Works of Aristotle , 2 volumes, revised Oxford translation, ed. by Jonathan Barnes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984)
  2. Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics , trans. by David Ross, revised by J.L. Ackrill and J.O. Urmson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)
  3. J. L. Ackrill Aristotle’s Ethics (London: Faber & Faber, 1973)
  4. Jonathan Barnes (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995)
  5. Richard Brandt Ethical Theory, The Problems of Normative and Critical Ethics (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1982)
  6. Sarah Broadie Ethics with Aristotle ( Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991)
  7. Stephen Engstrom & Jennifer Whiting (eds.) Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
  8. W. F. R. Hardie Aristotle’s Ethical Theory , 2nd edition ( Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1980)
  9. Gerard J. Hughes Aristotle on Ethics ( London : Rouledge, 2001)
  10. Alasdair Macintyre After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory , 2nd edition (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984)
  11. Alasdair MacIntyre Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984)
  12. Martha C. Nussbaum The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
  13. Amelie Rorty Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics ( Berkeley : UC Press, 1980)
  14. Thomas Smith Revaluing Ethics ( Albany : SUNY Press, 2001)
  15. J.O. Urmson Aristotle’s Ethics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988)