ABSTRACT
Aristotle wrote no books on ethics. Rather, he gave lectures, the notes for which subsequently were turned by others into two books, the Nicomachean Ethics (NE) and the Eudemian Ethics (EE). There is much dispute over the relative dating and merit of these works, but the traditional view is that the Nicomachean Ethics represents Aristotle’s philosophical views on ethics in their more developed form, perhaps at around 330 BC, the Eudemian Ethics probably having been composed earlier for a more popular audience (though see Kenny [4.12]). There is a third ethical work sometimes attributed to Aristotle, the Magna Moralia, but this is probably post-Aristotelian.
