Reading List for Complete Thyself

Last Updated: 2023-09-20

Here are the books and scholarly articles I've read in preparation for writing Complete Thyself: Aristotle on Human Fulfillment. Linked titles point to my summary notes on the book or article.

Primary Sources

Aristotle - Categories
Aristotle - On Interpretation
Aristotle - Prior Analytics
Aristotle - Posterior Analytics
Aristotle - Topics
Aristotle - Sophistical Refutations
Aristotle - Physics
Aristotle - On the Heavens
Aristotle - On Generation and Corruption
Aristotle - Meteorology
Aristotle - De Anima
Aristotle - Parva Naturalia
Aristotle - History of Animals
Aristotle - Parts of Animals
Aristotle - Movement of Animals
Aristotle - Progression of Animals
Aristotle - Generation of Animals
Aristotle - Problems
Aristotle - Metaphysics
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle - Magna Moralia
Aristotle - Eudemian Ethics
Aristotle - On Virtues and Vices
Aristotle - Politics
Aristotle - Economics
Aristotle - Rhetoric
Aristotle - Poetics
Aristotle - Constitution of Athens
Aristotle - Protrepticus
Aristotle - Fragments
Plato - Laws
Plato - Epinomis
Plato - Parmenides
Plato - Protagoras
Plato - First Alcibiades
Plato - Charmides
Plato - Republic
Plato - Laches
Plato - Lysis
Plato - Minos
Plato - Timaeus
Plato - Critias
Plato - Hippias Major
Plato - Hippias Minor
Plato - Symposium
Plato - Hipparchus
Plato - Ion
Plato - Erastai
Plato - Euthydemus
Plato - Clitophon
Plato - Theages
Plato - Second Alcibiades
Plato - Gorgias
Plato - Phaedrus
Plato - Meno
Plato - Menexenus
Plato - Theaetetus
Plato - Euthyphro
Plato - Cratylus
Plato - Sophist
Plato - Statesman
Plato - Apology
Plato - Philebus
Plato - Crito
Plato - Phaedo
Xenophon - Apology
Xenophon - Memorabilia

Scholarly Books

Anton and Preus (eds.) - Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Vol. IV
Bar On (ed.) - Engendering Origins
Barnes - Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction
Barnes and Schofield (eds.) - Articles on Aristotle, Vol. 2
Beere - Doing and Being
Bielskis - Existence, Meaning, Excellence
Bodéüs - Aristotle and the Theology of the Living Immortals
Bodnar and Fortenbaugh (eds.) - Eudemus of Rhodes
Brink, Meyer, and Shields (eds.) - Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge
Broadie - Ethics with Aristotle
Broadie - Aristotle and Beyond
Burnet - The Ethics of Aristotle
Casey - Pagan Virtue
Chroust - Aristotle
Clark - Aristotle's Man
Cohoe and Grimm - What it Takes to Live Philosophically
Cooper - Pursuits of Wisdom
Cooper - Reason and Emotion
Cooper - Reason and Human Good in Aristotle
Cottingham and Hacker (eds.) - Mind, Method, and Morality
Destree and Zingano (eds.) - Theoria
Dover - Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle
Elders - Aristotle's Theology
Eriksen - Bios Theoretikos
Evans - Aristotle's Concept of Dialectic
Flannery - Action and Character According to Aristotle
Freeland (ed.) - Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle
Foot - Natural Goodness
Fortenbaugh - Aristotle on Emotion
Furth - Substance, Form and Psyche
Gadamer - The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy
Garver - Confronting Aristotle's Ethics
Gotthelf and Lennox (eds.) - Philosophical Issues in Aristotle’s Biology
Gottlieb - The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics
Grant - The Ethics of Aristotle
Groenhout - Connected Lives
Hadot - What is Ancient Philosophy?
Hall - Aristotle's Way
Hardie - Aristotle's Ethical Theory
Henry - Prisoner of History
Henry and Nielsen (eds.) - Bridging the Gap between Aristotle's Science and Ethics
Hutchinson - The Virtues of Aristotle
Irwin - Aristotle's First Principles
Johnson - Aristotle on Teleology
Kalimtzis - An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Scholê
Kenny - The Aristotelian Ethics
Kenny - Aristotle on the Perfect Life
Kenny - Aristotle's Theory of the Will
Keyt and Miller (eds.) - A Companion to Aristotle's Politics
Kosman - The Activity of Being
Kosman - Virtues of Thought
Kraut - Aristotle on the Human Good
Kraut (ed.) - The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Lear - Happy Lives and the Highest Good
Leigh (ed.) - The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck
Lennox - Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology
Leroi - The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
Lord - Education and Culture in the Political Thought of Aristotle
Lynch - Aristotle's School
Mansion (ed.) - Aristote et les Problèmes sur Méthode
Melzer - Philosophy Between the Lines
Meyer - Aristotle on Moral Responsibility
Miller (ed.) - Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: A Critical Guide
Miller - Aristotle's Paradox of Monarchy and the Biographical Tradition
Miller - Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle's Politics
Monan - Moral Knowledge and its Methodology in Aristotle
Moreaux and Harflinger (eds.) - Untersuchungen zur Eudemischen Ethik
Natali - Aristotle: His Life and School
Natali - The Wisdom of Aristotle
Nightingale - Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy
North - Sophrosyne
Nussbaum - The Fragility of Goodness
Nussbaum and Rorty (eds.) - Essays on Aristotle’s De Anima
O'Meara (ed.) - Studies in Aristotle
O'Rourke - Aristotelian Interpretations
Owen - Logic, Science, and Dialectic
Pakaluk and Pearson (eds.) - Moral Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle
Pangle - Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship
Pearson - Aristotle on Desire
Polansky - The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Randall - Aristotle
Reeve - Action, Contemplation, and Happiness
Reeve - Aristotle on Practical Wisdom
Reeve - Practices of Reason
Roochnik - Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis
Rorty (ed.) - Essays on Aristotle's Ethics
Rowe - The Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics
Russell - Happiness for Humans
Russell - Practical Intelligence and the Virtues
Salem - In Pursuit of the Good
Segvic - From Protagoras to Aristotle
Sherman (ed.) - Aristotle's Ethics: Critical Essays
Sherman - The Fabric of Character
Sim (ed.) - The Crossroads of Norm and Nature
Simpson - The Great Ethics of Aristotle
Smith - Revaluing Ethics
Sparshott - Taking Life Seriously
Spranzi - The Art of Dialectic between Dialogue and Rhetoric
Stern-Gillet - Aristotle's Philosophy of Friendship
Urmson - Aristotle's Ethics
Walker - Aristotle on the Uses of Contemplation
White - Sovereign Virtue
Wilkes - Real People
Witt - Ways of Being

Scholarly Papers and Book Chapters

Achtenberg - Human Being, Beast and God
Ackrill - Aristotle's Distinction Between Energeia and Kinesis
Abizadeh - The Passions of the Wise
Anscombe - Modern Moral Philosophy
Anscombe - Thought and Action in Aristotle
Anton - Breaking the Habit: Aristotle on Recidivism and How a Thoroughly Vicious Person Might Begin to Improve
Anton - Fixed and Flexible Characters: Aristotle on the permanence and mutability of distinct types of character
Anton - The Harmony of To Kalon and the Dissonance of To Kakon in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Balaban - Praxis and Poiesis in Aristotle's Practical Philosophy
Barnes - Aristotle and the Methods of Ethics
Biondi - Aristotle's Moral Expert: The Phronimos
Biss - Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Knowledge
Bondeson - Aristotle on Responsibility for One's Character and the Possibility of Character Change
Brakas - Aristotle's "Is Said in Many Ways" and its Relationship to His Homonyms
Brakas - Aristotle on the Irreducible Senses of the Good
Broadie - Aristotelian Piety
Broadie - Interpreting Aristotle's Directions
Broadie - The Problem of Practical Intellect in Aristotle's Ethics
Brown - What Is the 'Mean Relative to Us' in Aristotle's Ethics?
Burger - Aristotle's "Exclusive" Account of Happiness
Chappell - The Good Man is the Measure of All Things
Charles - Aristotle on Practical and Theoretical Knowledge
Charles - Aristotle on Well-Being and Intellectual Contemplation
Code and Moravcsik - Explaining Various Forms of Living
Coope - Why does Aristotle think that ethical virtue is required for practical wisdom?
Cooper - Plato and Aristotle on "Finality" and "(Self-)Sufficiency"
Curzer - Aristotle's Bad Advice on Becoming Good
Curzer - Rules Lurking at the Heart of Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics
DeMarco - Plato's Ghost: Consequences of Aristotelian Dialectic
Depew - Humans and Other Political Animals in Aristotle's History of Animals
Depew - Politics, Music, and Contemplation in Aristotle's Ideal State
Devereux - Scientific and Ethical Methods in Aristotle's Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics
Dierksmeier and Pirson - Oikonomia Versus Chrematistike: Learning from Aristotle About the Future Orientation of Business Management
Di Muzio - Aristotle on Improving One's Character
Dobbs - Family Matters: Aristotle's Appreciation of Women and the Plural Structure of Society
Dobbs - Natural Right and the Problem of Aristotle's Defense of Slavery
Farwell - Aristotle and the Complete Life
Fazzo - Unmoved Mover as Pure Act or Unmoved Mover in Act? The Mystery of a Subscript Iota
Fiasse - Aristotle's Phronesis: A True Grasp of Ends as well as Means?
Frede - On Aristotle's Conception of the Soul
Freeland - Aristotelian Actions
Freeland - Aristotle on the Sense of Touch
Gotthelf - Aristotle as Scientist
Gotthelf - Aristotle's Conception of Final Causality
Gotthelf - A Biological Provenance
Gotthelf - Darwin on Aristotle
Gotthelf - The Place of the Good in Aristotle's Natural Teleology
Green - Self-Love and Self-Sufficiency in the Aristotelian Ethics
Grönroos - Listening to Reason in Aristotle's Moral Psychology
Gurtler - The Activity of Happiness in Aristotle's Ethics
Halper - The Substance of Aristotle's Ethics
Heinaman - Eudaimonia and Self-Sufficiency in the Nicomachean Ethics
Heinaman - The Eudemian Ethics on Knowledge and Voluntary Action
Heinaman - Rationality, Eudaimonia and Kakodaimonia in Aristotle
Hill - Two Perspectives on the Ultimate End
Hitz - Aristotle on Law and Moral Education
Hitz - Aristotle on Self-Knowledge and Friendship
Homiak - Feminism and Aristotle's Rational Ideal
Irwin - The Sense and Reference of Kalon in Aristotle
Jimenez - Aristotle and Protagoras against Socrates on Courage and Experience
Jimenez - Aristotle on Becoming Virtuous by Doing Virtuous Actions
Jimenez - Aristotle on Steering the Young by Pleasure and Pain
Jimenez - Empeiria and Good Habits in Aristotle's Ethics
Jost - Theos, Theoria, and Therapeia in Aristotle's Ethical Endings
Karbowski - Aristotle on the Deliberative Abilities of Women
Karbowski - Aristotle's Scientific Inquiry into Natural Slavery
Karbowski - Complexity and Progression in Aristotle's Treatment of Endoxa in the Topics
Karbowski - Deliberating Without Authority: Fortenbaugh on the Psychology of Women in Aristotle's Politics
Karbowski - Endoxa, facts, and the starting points of the Nicomachean Ethics
Karbowski - Is Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics Quasi-Mathematical?
Karbowski - Phainomena as Witnesses and Examples: The Methodology of Eudemian Ethics 1.6
Karbowski - Slaves, Women, and Aristotle's Natural Teleology
Keyt - The Meaning of Bios in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics
Kosman - Beauty and the Good
Kosman - What Does the Maker Mind Make?
Kullmann - Man as a Political Animal in Aristotle
Lawrence - Acquiring Character: Becoming Grown-Up
Lennox - Aristotle on the Biological Roots of Human Virtue
Lennox - The Place of Mankind in Aristotle's Zoology
Leunissen - Aristotle on Knowing Natural Science for the sake of Living Well
Louden - Aristotle's Practical Particularism
Louden - What is Moral Authority?
Lu - Getting Serious about Seriousness: On the Meaning of Spoudaios in Aristotle's Ethics
Lu - Hexis within Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
Lu - The Missing Virtue: Justice in Modern Virtue Ethics
Marmodoro - Aristotelian Powers at Work
Mele - Aristotle on Akrasia, Eudaimonia, and the Psychology of Action
Mele - Aristotle's Wish
Menn - The Origins of Aristotle's Concept of Energeia
Miller - Aristotle on Rationality in Action
Millgram - Aristotle on Making Other Selves
Milliken - Aristotle's Aesthetic Ethics
Morison - An Aristotelian Distinction between Two Types of Knowledge
Moss - Virtue Makes the Goal Right
Nielsen - The Constitution of the Soul: Aristotle on Lack of Deliberative Authority
Nielsen - Deliberation as Inquiry
Nielsen - Vice in the Nicomachean Ethics
O'Connor - The Ambitions of Aristotle's Audience and the Activist Ideal of Happiness
Osborne - Selves and Other Selves in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics vii 12
Pangle - The Anatomy of Courage in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Pangle - Friendship and Self-Love in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Pangle - Towards a Dialogue between Socratic Philosophy and Evolutionary Psychology: Why do we love the Noble?
Rapp - What Use Is Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean?
Reeve - Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought
Reeve - Aristotle's Philosophical Method
Reeve - Dialectic and Philosophy in Aristotle
Reiner - Aristotle on Personality and Some Implications for Friendship
Richardson - Degrees of Finality and the Highest Good in Aristotle
Richardson - Desire and the Good in De Anima
Riesbeck - Aristotle on the Politics of Marriage: "Marital Rule" in the Politics
Riesbeck - Degrees of Finality in Nicomachean Ethics 1.2 and 1.7
Roche - Ergon and Eudaimonia in Nicomachean Ethics I
Rogers - Aristotle on Loving Another for His Own Sake
Rogers - Aristotle's Conception of To Kalon
Roochnik - What is Theoria?
Rorty - De Anima: Its Agenda and Its Recent Interpreters
Salmieri - Aristotle's Non-'Dialectical' Methodology in the Nicomachean Ethics
Salmieri - Aristotle on Selfishness? Understanding the Iconoclasm of Nicomachean Ethics ix 8
Schaffer - On What Grounds What
Schuh - The Meaning of Kalon in Aristotle's Ethics
Sherman - Aristotle on Friendship and the Shared Life
Sherman - Character, Planning, and Choice in Aristotle
Shields - The Science of Soul in Aristotle's Ethics
Sim - Senses of Being in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Simpson - Aristotle's Ethica Eudemia 1220b10-11 ἐν τοῖς ἀπηλλαγμένοις and De Virtutibus et Vitiis
Smith - Aristotle's Theory of Natural Slavery
Verbeke - Happiness and Chance in Aristotle
von Fritz - Noos and Noein in the Homeric Poems
Walker - Aristotle on Activity 'According to the Best and Most Final' Virtue
Walker - Aristotle on the Utility and Choiceworthiness of Friends
Walker - Contemplation and Self-Awareness in the Nicomachean Ethics
Walker - How Narrow is Aristotle's Contemplative Ideal?
Whiting - Living Bodies
Wilkes - Psuche versus the Mind
Witt - Dialectic, Motion, and Perception
Wood - Contemplating the Beautiful: The Practical Importance of Theoretical Excellence in Aristotle's Ethics
Zingano - Aristotle and the Problems of the Method in Ethics

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