Introduction |
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Bibliography |
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Note on the Text |
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NICOMACHEAN ETHICS |
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The good as the aim of action |
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3 | (1) |
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Politics as the master science of the good |
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4 | (1) |
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The limitations of ethics and politics |
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5 | (1) |
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Happiness is the good, but many views are held about it |
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6 | (2) |
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Various views on the highest good |
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8 | (1) |
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9 | (5) |
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The good is final and self-sufficient; happiness is defined |
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14 | (5) |
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Popular views about happiness confirm our position |
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19 | (3) |
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How happiness is acquired |
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22 | (1) |
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Can a man be called ``happy'' during his lifetime? |
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23 | (3) |
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Do the fortunes of the living affect the dead? |
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26 | (1) |
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The praise accorded to happiness |
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27 | (2) |
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The psychological foundations of the virtues |
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29 | (4) |
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33 | (19) |
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Moral virtue as the result of habits |
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33 | (2) |
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Method in the practical sciences |
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35 | (1) |
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Pleasure and pain as the test of virtue |
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36 | (2) |
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Virtuous action and virtue |
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38 | (2) |
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Virtue defined: the genus |
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40 | (1) |
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Virtue defined: the differentia |
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41 | (3) |
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Examples of the mean in particular virtues |
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44 | (4) |
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The relation between the mean and its extremes |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (3) |
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52 | (31) |
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Actions voluntary and involuntary |
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52 | (6) |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (3) |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (4) |
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Courage and its sphere of operation |
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68 | (2) |
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Courage: its nature and its opposites |
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70 | (2) |
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Qualities similar to courage |
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72 | (4) |
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Courage: its relation to pleasure and pain |
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76 | (1) |
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Self-control and its sphere of operation |
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77 | (2) |
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Self-control: its nature and its opposites |
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79 | (2) |
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81 | (2) |
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83 | (28) |
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Generosity, extravagance, and stinginess |
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83 | (6) |
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Magnificence, vulgarity, and niggardliness |
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89 | (4) |
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High-mindedness, pettiness, and vanity |
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93 | (6) |
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Ambition and lack of ambition as the extremes of a nameless virtue |
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99 | (1) |
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Gentleness, short temper, and apathy |
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100 | (2) |
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Friendliness, obsequiousness, and grouchiness |
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102 | (2) |
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Truthfulness, boastfulness, and self-depreciation |
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104 | (3) |
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Wittiness, buffoonery, and boorishness |
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107 | (2) |
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109 | (2) |
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111 | (35) |
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The different kinds of justice; complete justice |
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111 | (4) |
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Partial justice: just action as distribution and as rectification |
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115 | (3) |
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Just action as fairness in distribution |
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118 | (2) |
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Just action as rectification |
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120 | (3) |
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Just action as reciprocity in the economic life of the state |
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123 | (6) |
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What is just in the political sense |
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129 | (2) |
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Just by nature and just by convention |
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131 | (2) |
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The various degrees of responsibility for just and unjust action |
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133 | (3) |
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Voluntariness and involuntariness in just and unjust action and suffering |
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136 | (5) |
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141 | (5) |
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Is it possible to be unjust toward oneself? |
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146 | (28) |
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Moral and intellectual excellence; the psychological foundations of intellectual excellence |
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146 | (1) |
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The two kinds of intellectual excellence and their objects |
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147 | (3) |
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The qualities by which truth is attained: (a) pure science or knowledge |
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150 | (1) |
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(b) Art of applied science |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (2) |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (3) |
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Practical wisdom and politics |
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158 | (3) |
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Practical wisdom and excellence in deliberation |
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161 | (3) |
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Practical wisdom andunderstanding |
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164 | (1) |
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Practical wisdom and good sense |
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165 | (2) |
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The use of theoretical and practical wisdom |
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167 | (3) |
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Practical wisdom and moral virtue |
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170 | (4) |
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174 | (40) |
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Moral strength and moral weakness: their relation to virtue and vice and current beliefs about them |
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174 | (2) |
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Problems in the current beliefs about moral strength and moral weakness |
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176 | (4) |
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Some problems solved: moral weakness and knowledge |
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180 | (5) |
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More problems solved: the sphere in which moral weakness operates |
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185 | (4) |
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Moral weakness and brutishness |
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189 | (2) |
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191 | (3) |
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Moral strength and moral weakness: tenacity and softness |
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194 | (3) |
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Moral weakness and self-indulgence |
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197 | (2) |
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Steadfastness in moral strength and moral weakness |
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199 | (2) |
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Moral weakness and practical wisdom |
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201 | (2) |
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Pleasure: some current views |
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203 | (2) |
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The views discussed: Is pleasure a good thing? |
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205 | (3) |
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The views discussed: Is pleasure the highest good? |
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208 | (2) |
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The views discussed: Are most pleasures bad? |
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210 | (4) |
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214 | (31) |
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214 | (3) |
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The three things worthy of affection |
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217 | (1) |
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The three kinds of friendship |
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218 | (3) |
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Perfect friendship and imperfect friendship |
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221 | (2) |
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Friendship as a characteristic and as an activity |
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223 | (1) |
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Additional observations on the three kinds of friendship |
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224 | (3) |
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Friendship between unequals |
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227 | (1) |
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Giving and receiving affection |
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228 | (3) |
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Friendship and justice in the state |
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231 | (2) |
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The different political systems |
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233 | (2) |
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Friendship and justice in the different political systems |
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235 | (2) |
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Friendship within the family |
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237 | (3) |
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What equal friends owe to one another |
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240 | (3) |
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What unequal friends owe to one another |
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243 | (2) |
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245 | (28) |
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How to measure what friends owe to one another |
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245 | (3) |
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248 | (2) |
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When friendships are dissolved |
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250 | (2) |
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Self-love as the basis of friendship |
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252 | (3) |
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255 | (1) |
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256 | (2) |
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258 | (2) |
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260 | (3) |
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263 | (4) |
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How many friends should we have? |
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267 | (2) |
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Friendship in good and in bad fortune |
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269 | (2) |
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Friends must live together |
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271 | (2) |
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273 | (30) |
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The two views about pleasure |
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273 | (1) |
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Eudoxus' view: pleasure is the good |
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274 | (2) |
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The view that pleasure is evil |
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276 | (3) |
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The true character of pleasure |
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279 | (3) |
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282 | (4) |
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286 | (2) |
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Happiness, intelligence, and the contemplative life |
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288 | (3) |
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The advantages of the contemplative life |
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291 | (4) |
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295 | (8) |
Glossary |
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