ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how a network analysis brings out the fuller structure of Aristotle's ethics, the relation of the concepts he employs, their material relations and the presuppositions concerning their habitual contexts, and the lines that connect them to the rest of Aristotle's philosophical outlook. A purposive structure in human action could well have been taken for granted by Aristotle in the light of his whole teleological philosophy. The human nature that Aristotle appeals to in discussing the human good for man is, that of the species man, not of the individual as individual. Aristotle's theory of pleasure is subtle; its sophistication is not always appreciated, because it stands under the shadow of Plato's great achievements in depth psychology. Aristotle's treatment of practical wisdom proceeds in two different directions. In one he distinguishes it from other intellectual capacities by its connection with moral virtue. In the other he distinguishes it from moral virtue by pointing to its intellectual character.
