All Episodes
Reading Aristotle's Text — 107 episodes
EN 1106a29-36 The mean in relation to the thing itself
EN 1106a24-29 To investigate the nature of virtue from the perspective of mean
EN 1106a13-24 Human virtue is a disposition that makes human become good and perform his function well
EN 1106a6-12 Virtues are not capacities either but dispositions
EN 1105a28-1106a6 Virtues are not affections
EN 1105b19-28 The happenings in the soul are three
EN 1105b12-18 One will not be good by just philosophizing
EN 1105b5-12 One becomes virtuous by doing virtuous things as the virtuous people do
EN 1105a33-b5 Knowing is not important to virtue
EN 1105a26-33 Three conditions for acting virtuously
EN 1105a21-26 One becomes literate by doing literate things literately
ΕΝ 1095a17-21 A puzzle about the aquisition of virtue
EN 1095a13-16 The acquisition, increase and corruption of virtue are from the same things
EN 1105a7-13 It is more difficult to fight against pleasure than against spirit
EN 1105a1-7 Actions are measured by pleasure and pain
EN 1104b29-1105a1 The good person tends to be correct about what's pleasant
EN 1104b27-28 Virtue is the disposition that is able to do best things concerned with pleasures and pains
EN 1104b18-25 People become bad because of pleasures and pains
EN 1104b8-13 Ethical Virtue is concerned with pleasre and pain
EN 1104b3-8 The pleasure and pain felt in action is a mark of character
EN 1104a27-b3 Virtues and their activities are acquired by the same things
EN 1104a20-27 Virtues are destroyed by excess and deficiency but preserved by the middle
EN 1104a11-19 Many things are destroyed by excess and deficiency
EN 1103b35-1104a11 The account of virtues should be in outline and not exact
EN 1103b31-34 Acting in accord with correct reason
EN 1103b26-31 We investigate virtue in order to be good
EN 1103b22-25 The qualities of activities makes a huge difference in the acquisition of dispositions
EN 1103b17-22 The dispositions of character come into being by engaging in similar activities
EN 1103b12-17 We become virtuous and vicious by engaging in the same activities
EN 1103b7-12 Virtue comes into being and is destroyed from and through the same things
EN 1103b2-6 Lawmakers make citizens good by habituating them
EN 1103a31-b2 We acquire virtues by doing virtuous things
EN 1103a26-31 We have natural capacities in born
EN 1103a18-26 Humans are by nature receptive of virtues
EN 1103a14-18 The ethical virtue comes about from habit
EN 1103a2-10 Intellectual Virtue and Ethical Virtue
EN 1102b31-1103a2 The nonrational part is rational insofar as it listens to reason
EN 1102b25-31 The appetitive and desiderative part of the soul partakes reason
EN 1102b13-25 The other nature of the nonrational part of soul is against reason
EN 1102b2-12 The Nutritive Part of Soul Has Nothing to Do With Human Virtue
EN 1102a32-b2 One of the nonrational part of the soul is responsible for nourishing and growing
EN 1102a26-33 The soul is divided into nonrational and rational parts
EN 1102a13-26 The politician must know things of the soul in some way
EN 1102a5-12 We must investigate virtue to better understand happiness
EN 1101b31-1102a4 Happiness is honorable and perfect
EN 1101b27-32 Eudoxus argues that pleasure as the best thing is beyond praise
EN 1101b21-27 Happiness is too good to be praised
EN 1101b10-21 Whether happiness is praiseworthy?
EN 1101a28-b9 The good or bad actions of friends and descendants will not change one's happiness
EN 1101a22-28 The fortunes of descendents and friends have some influences on happiness
EN 1101a14-22 Happiness is an end and complete in every way
EN 1101a6-13 The happy person will not be changed by luck easily
EN 1100b35-1101a6 The good and wise person bears luck with grace
EN 1100b33-35 No one of the blessed is miserable (musical reading)
EN 1100b22-33 The great lucky things do affect the happiness
EN 1100b18-22 The happy person bears luck most appropriately
EN 1100b7-17 Happiness is stable
ΕΝ 1100a31-b7 Luck does not make one happy or miserable
EN 1100a21-20 A puzzle about whether the sufferings of the descendants can affect the ancestors
EN 1100a14-21 Can children's fame and misfortunes affect a dead parent's happiness?
EN 1100a10-14 Only the dead is happy?
EN 1100a5-9 Happiness requires complete life
EN 1099b32-1100a5 Child is not happy because of lack of complete virtue
EN 1099b25-32 The end of politics is to make citizens good
EN 1099b18-25 Happiness is not acquired because of luck but because of virtue
EN 1099b11-18 Happiness is divine and blessed
EN 1099a9-11 A puzzle about how happiness is acquired
EN 1099a31-b8 External goods are also needed to be happy
EN 1099a21-31 Happiness is what is best, noblest and most pleasant
EN 1099a7-20 Actions in accord with virtue are pleasant
EN 1098b31-1099a7 The ultimate good is activity rather than state
EN 1098b20-31 The function argument is in harmony with endoxa
EN 1098b9-20 External goods and goods about the soul
EN 1098a34-b8 The studies of principles are not the same in all cases
EN 1098a20-33 Sketch the good in outline
EN 1098a16-20 The human good is the activity of the soul in accord with the best virtue
EN 1097b33-1098a15 Function argument
EN 1097b22-33 There is a work of human being
EN 1097b6-21 Happiness is self-sufficient
Pleasure, honor and virtue are chosen for the sake of happiness
EN 1097a24-34 Happiness is the most complete end
EN 1097a15-24 The good at issue is the ultimate end
EN 1096b35-1097a14 The knowledge of the form of the good has no benefits to action
EN 1096b26-35 The good at issue is practical good
EN 1096b16-26 The good is not something common under one Form
EN 1096b5-16 The good things are said in two ways
EN 1096a34-b5 No difference between a thing and a thing itself in definition
EN 1096a29-34 There are many sciences even of things under one category
EN 1096a23-29 The Good has many senses
EN 1096a17-23 No common Form in different categories
EN 1096a11-17 Truth is more preferable than friends.
EN 1096a4-10 The life of money-making is not happy
EN 1095b30-1096a4 Even virtue is not happiness
EN 1095b22-30 The decent and practical people think happiness is honor
EN 1095b14-22 Many people think happiness is pleasure
EN 1095b4-13 Listen to Hesiod
EN 1095a30-b4 Arguments from principles and to principles are different
EN 1095a20-30 People disagree on what happiness is
EN 1095a14-20 The aim of political science is happiness
EN 1094b22-1095a2 The well educated seeks the exactness in accord with the subject matter
EN 1094b14-23 The truth of the good things is to be shown in outline
EN 1094b7-14 The good of the city is greater than the good of the individual
EN 1094a26-b7 The good is the end of political science
EN 1094a18-26 The good is wished for because of itself
EN 1094a6-18 Some ends are more choiceworthy
EN 1094a1-6 Everything aims at some good
EN 1095a2-13 The audience of political science