Happiness and External Goods in Nicomachean Ethics
- Philosophy
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2019
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Publisher's Description
In this volume, Sorin Sabou explores the dependency of happiness on external goods in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Sabou defends the following thesis: the dependency of happiness on external goods, in EN, is interpreted in the light of its political self-sufficiency, and in the light of our political humanity; this dependency is of three kinds: (1) enhancing-instrumental, (2) constitutive, and (3) subsistent.
Endorsements (2)
“Remarkable through erudition, through its detailed analyses and fresh approaches, Sabou's book offers a new reading of Aristotle’s inquiry on happiness . . . It's a book devoted to critically-minded students trained to penetrate the endless strata of surprising assumptions.”
“Dr. Sabou’s Happiness and External Goods in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a very close and pleasingly technical study of Aristotle’s anthropology. The inclusion of in-text references to Aristotle’s work and footnotes referencing the secondary material make this a very useful piece of scholarship. In our present contentious political climate, a close reading of and meditation on the implications of Aristotle’s insight that humans are essentially social beings is beneficial. Sabou’s study is a very timely contribution.”
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