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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (1) bk 1-5 - Happiness and The Virtues
Welcome to the Course and Preliminaries
Welcome to the Nicomachean Ethics Course
Welcome to The Course Video
The Course Text - The Nicomachean Ethics
A Bit About Me - The Course Builder and Instructor
Contact and Interaction With the Instructor
Some Preliminaries - The Disciplines of Philosophy
Useful Video - Big Questions and Areas of Philosophy
Some Preliminaries - What Is Ethics About?
Questions About The Class - Post Them Here
For Additional Help With Class Matters
Aristotle and the Nicomachean Ethics
Understanding Aristotle's Dialectical Approach
Common Frustrations in Studying Aristotle
Useful Video - How to Read a Philosophical Text - Suggestions
Some Useful Preliminary Resources on Aristotle and Virtue Ethics
Handout - Ranges of Moral Values in Aristotle's Works
Handout - An Aristotelian Map of the Soul and Its Faculties
Supplementary Video - Aristotle, Athens, and Alexander The Great
Nicomachean Ethics book 1
Overview - Nicomachean Ethics book 1
Lesson Page - Aristotle on Ends, Activities, and Goods
Lesson Page - Starting Points, Method, and Precision in Practical Philosophy
Lesson Page - What Is Happiness?
Lesson Page - The Multiplicity of Goods
Lecture Video - Activities, Arts, and Purposes
Lecture Video - Principles and Exactness in Ethics
Lecture Video - Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Form of the Good
Lecture Video - Categories of the Good
Lecture Video - The Nature of Human Happiness
Lecture Video - Happiness and the Function of Human Beings
Lecture Video - Fortune, External Goods, Other People, and Happiness
Lecture Video - Happiness, the Dead, and the Living
Handout - Ends, Happiness, and Goods
Handout - Good Is Spoken In Many Ways
Worksheet - Activities, Ends, and Means
Questions for Reflection - Nicomachean Ethics book 1
Discussion Forum - Nicomachean Ethics book 1
Quiz - test Your understanding of Nicomachean Ethics book 1
Nicomachean Ethics book 2
Overview - Nicomachean Ethics book 2
Lesson Page - What Are Virtues and Vices?
Lesson Page - Virtue as the Mean
Lesson Page - Considerations of Pain and Pleasure
Lesson Page - The Virtues in Outline
Lecture Video - Virtues as Habitual Dispositions
Lecture Video - Virtue and Human Nature
Lecture Video - Virtue as the Mean State
Lecture Video - Virtue as a Norm for Evaluation
Lecture Video - Pleasure, Pain, Virtue, and Vice
Lecture Video - Intrinsically Bad Actions and Emotions
Lecture Video - Virtues Crafts and Knowledge
Lecture Video - Aristotle's Listing of the Virtues
Lecture Video - The Moral Emotions
Handout - What is Moral Virtue? Aristotle’s Answers
Handout - The Virtues In Outline
Worksheet - Character Traits
Questions for Reflection - Nicomachean Ethics book 2
Discussion Forum - Nicomachean Ethics Book 2
Quiz - test Your understanding of Nicomachean Ethics book 2
Nicomachean Ethics book 3
Overview - Nicomachean Ethics book 3
Lesson Page - Voluntary and Involuntary Action
Lesson Page - Prohairesis (Choice), Deliberation, and Wish (Boulesis)
Lesson Page - The Virtue of Courage
Lesson Page - The Virtue of Temperance
Lecture Video - The Voluntary and the Involuntary
Lecture Video - Ignorance, The Voluntary, and the Involuntary
Lecture Video - Compulsion, The Voluntary, and the Involuntary
Lecture Video - Deliberation, Means, and Ends
Lecture Video - Prohairesis or Moral Choice
Lecture Video - Wish (Boulesis) or Rational Desire
Lecture Video - Responsibility for Character
Lecture Video - The Virtue of Courage
Lecture Video - Five States Resembling Genuine Courage
Lecture Video - The Virtue of Temperance
Handout - Voluntary and Involuntary Actions
Handout - Courage and Its Opposed Vices
Handout - Temperance and Its Opposed Vices
Worksheet - Is My Action Or Condition Voluntary?
Questions for Reflection - Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 3
Discussion Forum - Nicomachean Ethics Book 3
Quiz - test Your understanding of Nicomachean Ethics book 3
Nicomachean Ethics book 4
Overview - Nicomachean Ethics book 4
Lesson Page - The Virtues of Liberality and Magnificence
Lesson Page - The Virtues of Magnanimity and Right Ambition
Lesson Page - The Virtue of Mildness or Good Temper
Lesson Page - The Social Virtues: Truthfulness, Friendliness, and Good Humor
Lesson Page - The Moral Emotions
Lecture Video - The Virtue of Generosity or Liberality
Lecture Video - The Virtue of Magnanimity
Lecture Video - The Virtue of Magnificence
Lecture Video - The Virtue of Right Ambition
Lecture Video - The Virtue of Mildness or Good Temper
Lecture Video - The Virtue of Truthfulness
Lecture Video - The Virtue of Friendliness
Lecture Video - The Virtue of Good Humor
Lecture Video - The Quasi-Virtue of Shame
Handout - Liberality and Its Opposed Vices
Handout - Magnificence and Its Opposed Vices
Handout - Magnanimity and Its Opposed Vices
Handout - Right Ambition and Its Opposed Vices
Handout - Virtue of Mildness or Good Temper
Handout - Virtue of Truthfulness
Handout - Virtue of Friendliness
Handout - Virtue of Good Humor
Worksheet - Am I Virtuous?
Questions for Reflection - Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 4
Discussion Forum - Nicomachean Ethics Book 4
Quiz - test Your understanding of Nicomachean Ethics book 4
Nicomachean Ethics book 5
Overview - Nicomachean Ethics book 5
Lesson Page - Multiple Meanings of "Justice"
Lesson Page - Justice as Legality and Complete Virtue
Lesson Page - Modes of Particular Justice
Lesson Page - Justice as Equity
Lecture Video - Six Types of Justice
Lecture Video - Unjust Actions vs. Injustice As a Vice
Lecture Video - Justice As Complete Virtue
Lecture Video - Justice and Legality
Lecture Video - Justice in Distribution
Lecture Video - Rectificatory Justice
Lecture Video - Justice as Reciprocity
Lecture Video - Justice as Equity
Lecture Video - Can One Do Injustice To Oneself?
Handout - Six Types of Justice in book 5
Handout Justice as Complete Virtue
Worksheet - Distributive Justice
Questions for Reflection - Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 5
Discussion Forum - Nicomachean Ethics Book 5
Quiz - test Your understanding of Nicomachean Ethics book 5
Wrapping Up Books 1-5
Taking Stock and Moving On
AMA Discussion Forum - Final Comments or Questions
Interesting Books Useful for Studying Aristotle
Connecting with, Supporting the Work of, or Booking Dr. Sadler
Dr. Sadler's Other Videos on Aristotle
Lecture Video - Activities, Arts, and Purposes
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