All of the primary readings for this class will be from portions of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (with the exception of Week 3).

You certainly may find it useful or interesting to read the entirety of that work, but we will be focusing on the following portions.

• Week 1 - the whole of Nicomachean Ethics book 2 (1103a-1109b)
  
  
• Week 2 - portions of Nicomachean Ethics book 3 (1115a-1119b)
  
  
• Week 3 - portions of Nicomachean Ethics book 4 (1125b-1126b), supplemented with portions of Rhetoric book 2, and portions of Eudemian Ethics book 3 (1231b)
  
  
• Week 4 - portions of Nicomachean Ethics book 4 (1119b-1123a)
  
  
• Week 5 - portions of Nicomachean Ethics book 4 (1123a-1125b)
  
  
• Week 6 - portions of Nicomachean Ethics book 4 (1126b-1128b)
  
  
• Week 7 - the whole of Nicomachean Ethics book 5 (1129a-1138b)
  
  
• Week 8 - portions of Nicomachean Ethics book 6 (1140a-1145a)