Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics

Giulio Di Basilio is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a member of the Plato Centre. He has published articles on Aristotle’s ethics and Aquinas’s philosophy of action, as well as on the text of the Nicomachean Ethics.

"This collection of fresh contributions on the connections between the two main ethical works attributed to Aristotle is a most welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the EE and NE that has steadily grown in the last half-century." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review"The volume’s careful treatments make important observations and raise interesting questions about the two treatises that deserve further scholarly attention. The volume, while contributing to the dominant developmentalist paradigm in understanding Aristotle’s ethical treatises, also shows how inquiry into the EE could be fruitful outside of it." - The Classical Review

• 1. Introduction: Aristotle’s Two Ethics, Giulio Di Basilio; 2. The Preambles to the Ethics, Carlo Natali; 3. The Ergon- Argument in the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, Friedemann Buddensiek; 4. Pleasure and Pain in the Eudeamian and Nicomachean Definitions of Moral Virtue, Marco Zingano; 5. Voluntariness of Character Traits in Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics, Giulio Di Basilio; 6. Decision in the Eudemian Ethics, Karen Margrethe Nielsen; 7. Justice in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics, Mitzi Lee; 8. Sophia in the Eudemian Ethics, Christopher Rowe; 9. Neither Virtue Nor Vice: Akratic and Enkratic Values in and Beyond the Eudemian Ethics, Jozef Müller; 10. Two Kinds of Pleasure (and Pain) in Aristotle’s Ethics, Dorothea Frede; 11. Complete Virtue, Giulia Bonasio; 12. The Wild and the Good: Conditions for Virtue in the Eudemian Ethics, Terence Irwin.