Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

Revision notes

• Overall structure of NE
• Happiness and function
• Virtue and the mean
• Virtues of character
• Voluntariness
• Decision and virtues of thought
• Justice
• Akrasia
• Friendship and self-love
• Pleasure and contemplation

Essay plans

• Happiness and function
• Virtue and the mean
• Virtues of character
• Voluntariness and habituation
• Decision and virtues of thought
• Justice
• Akrasia

Practice essays

• How can virtue be a mean if it is also an extremity?
• Is Aristotle’s virtuous person primarily self-interested?
• Commentaries