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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (ed. J. Bywater)
Editions and translations: Greek (ed. J. Bywater) | English (ed. H. Rackham)
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Book 1
pasa technê kai pasa methodos, homoiôs de praxis te kai proairesis, agathou tinos ephiesthai dokei: dio kalôs apephênanto tagathon, hou pant' ephietai. diaphora de tis phainetai tôn telôn: ta men gar eisin energeiai, ta de par' autas erga tina. hôn d' eisi telê tina para tas praxeis, en toutois beltiô pephuke tôn energeiôn ta erga. pollôn de praxeôn ousôn kai technôn kai epistêmôn polla ginetai kai ta telê: iatrikês men gar hugieia, naupêgikês de ploion, stratêgikês de nikê, oikonomikês de ploutos. hosai d' eisi tôn toioutôn hupo mian tina dunamin, kathaper hupo tên hippikên chalinopoiikê kai hosai allai tôn hippikôn organôn eisin, hautê de kai pasa polemikê praxis hupo tên stratêgikên, kata ton auton dê tropon allai huph' heteras: en hapasais de ta tôn architektonikôn telê pantôn estin hairetôtera tôn hup' auta: toutôn gar charin kakeina diôketai. diapherei d' ouden tas energeias autas einai ta telê tôn praxeôn ê para tautas allo ti, kathaper epi tôn lechtheisôn epistêmôn. ei dê ti telos esti tôn praktôn ho di' hauto boulometha, talla de dia touto, kai mê panta di' heteron hairoumetha proeisi gar houtô g' eis apeiron, hôst' einai kenên kai mataian tên orexin, dêlon hôs tout' an eiê tagathon kai to ariston. ar' oun kai pros ton bion hê gnôsis autou megalên echei rhopên, kai kathaper toxotai skopon echontes mallon an tunchanoimen tou deontos; ei d' houtô, peirateon tupôi ge perilabein auto ti pot' esti kai tinos tôn epistêmôn ê dunameôn. doxeie d' an tês kuriôtatês kai malista architektonikês. toiautê d' hê politikê phainetai: tinas gar einai chreôn tôn epistêmôn en tais polesi,
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This text is based on the following book(s): ed. J. Bywater, Aristotle's Ethica Nicomachea. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1894. OCLC: 6838264
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