Nicomachean Ethics

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πᾶσα τέχνη καὶ πᾶσα μέθοδος, ὁμοίως δὲ πρᾶξίς τε καὶ προαίρεσις, ἀγαθοῦ τινὸς ἐφίεσθαι δοκεῖ:

Every skill and every go-after, like doing and choice, seems to strive to an good.

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  1. Question: Can anybody give me some feedback, wether my translation is right or not.

  2. Question: I’m looking in the Nicomachean Ethics from Aristotle by methodological parts. Who can gives me some of such parts.


    thanks

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  1. “Every techne (art) and every methodos (method), and likewise praxis (action) and proairesis (choice), seems to have some good as its aim.” All four terms are used in a technical Aristotelian way (in the wake of Plato), and really they’re impossible to translate, since their meaning(s) don’t correlate with English words. αγαθον is translatable (“good”), but what does he mean by it?

  2. The beginning is always a good place to start, and it’s there that the methodological foundations are laid.

You’ll see that he’s analytical, and also that he favors a method that starts by establishing first principles. That makes him a good philosopher but a poor scientist.

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Thank you,

what is the highest point in this work of Aristotle?

thanks

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The highest point? That the highest good, for people, is eudaimonia, happiness. But there’s rather more to it than that!

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I usually don’t study philosophy and I can’t be sure at all about the slight conversions but what if we replaced


technique(technical skill) instead of techne(ART-TEXNH)

Intention or disposition (because a choice is also about intention or disposition) instead of proairesis(CHOICE-ΠΡΟΑΙΡΕΣΙΣ). I thought this because I am mother-tongue biased on word"προαίρεσις"(Καλοπροαίρετος *- adj,modern G. - means someone of good disposition)

We potentially could interpret “αγαθόν” subject to technique, method, action, intention(disposition) as ‘science for mankind welfare’ or ‘science for mankind not science for science/scientists’.

  • : Καλός (modern G.) = Ἀγαθός (Ancient G.)
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I have got three questions:

  1. I am looking for the most frequently and absolutly usefull 50 words/vocabulary or termini technique in nicomachean ethics to understand this work somewhat.

  2. What ist the methodology function in the other books form 2 to 10.

  3. What does mean Aristotle with the voluntary and the opposite of it.

thanks

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Bilo,
It sounds as if your questions are connected with a college course. It would be best if you worked on them yourself.