ABSTRACT
Aristotle (384-323 bce) was a member of Plato’s Academy for twenty years and later founded his own school in Athens, the Lyceum. He was a prolific writer, admired in antiquity for his prose style.1 Unfortunately, virtually all of the works he prepared for publication have been lost to us. Nonetheless a very large body of his writing remains, larger than the Platonic corpus. This includes two ethical treatises, known to us as Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics. The former is generally considered to be the later work, and will be the main reference point of the discussion below.2
