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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
Welcome to The Course Video
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