The Nicomachean Ethics is widely considered one of the most important works of philosophy. Ethics is about how individuals should best live, while the study of politics is from the perspective of a law-giver, looking at the good of a whole community. It is connected to another of Aristotle's practical works, Politics, which similarly aims at people becoming good, through the creation and maintenance of social institutions that promote human flourishing. It is not merely an investigation about what good consists of, but it hopes to be of practical help in achieving the good. Ethics, Aristotle says, is practical rather than theoretical, in the Aristotelian senses of these terms.

In Aristotle's Metaphysics, he describes how Socrates, the friend and teacher of Plato, turned philosophy to human questions, whereas pre-Socratic philosophy had only been theoretical. The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, about how men should best live.

The work plays a pre-eminent role in explaining Aristotelian ethics. : I.2 It consists of ten books or scrolls, and is closely related to Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics. The Nicomachean Ethics ( / ˌ n aɪ k ɒ m ə ˈ k i ə n/ / ˌ n ɪ k ə m ə ˈ k i ə n/ Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. First page of a 1566 edition of the Nicomachean Ethics in Greek and Latin

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