Reeve has chosen, in contrast with Irwin, to argue for his own interpretation in a lengthy introduction that incorporates a good deal of the claims he has defended in recent years in two books on Aristotle's ethics published by Harvard University Press.

As Hackett has served our discipline so well for so many years with valuable and reasonably priced editions, Reeve's latest effort will be understandably welcomed by most, if not all. Readers of Reeve's earlier translations of both Platonic and Aristotelian texts will have high expectations for this latest entry in what seems a never-ending stream of new translations of the NE, and I assume that this one is meant in some way to replace Irwin's earlier and widely used 2 nd ed. xiii to be a suitable substitute for 'extensive annotation and commentary', a practice clearly at work in Terence Irwin's previous Hackett translation, where.Irwin's notes quite often offer concise but penetrating analyses of the arguments of the NE that raise objections and clarifications, always with an eye on the course of the over-all argument and the difficulty of understanding key passages. These internal references are explicitly claimed at p. For, in his 160 pages of notes to his translation, numbered consecutively from 1-898, we are referred profusely to a wide range of other passages in Aristotle's works, from other ethical works, of course, but also to his rhetorical, political, psychological, biological, logical, and metaphysical writings, often with rather lengthy excerpts provided. Reeve's new translation of the Nicomachean Ethics is most succinctly characterized as applying Trendelenburg's dictum to this work with a relentless consistency. German philologist and idealist philosopher, insisted that the best and safest way to interpret a text of Aristotle's was to rely on other texts attributed to him: ' Aristoteles ex Aristotele' was his dictum, and this approach to studying the Metaphysics was explicitly endorsed and employed by Joseph Owens in his influential The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics.

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