Three works on soulcraft have come down to us from antiquity under Aristotle's name: the Nicomachean Ethics, the Eudemian Ethics, and the Great Ethics (a.k.a. Magna Moralia). Scholars dispute the authenticity of the Great Ethics, which paradoxically is much shorter than the others, but the first two are accepted as authentic. For my "prelude and fugue" about Aristotle, I've been translating the Eudemian Ethics (the lesser-known "little brother" of the Nicomachean Ethics) in order to better understand Aristotle's perspective on the good life. To make this work-in-progress accessible to interested readers, I've decided to publish it serially here, which means I'll post one short chapter a week for the next 79 weeks (typically on Mondays). These will be my draft translations, subject to change as I harmonize and improve my renderings of the Greek text. I hope that some folks will find this to be a useful exercise. Although I'll refrain from providing explanatory notes on each chapter, questions and comments are welcome.
(Cross-posted at Beautiful Wisdom.)
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