Reading List for Complete Thyself

Last Updated: 2024-03-31

Here are the original and secondary works I've read in preparation for writing Complete Thyself: Aristotle on Human Fulfillment. Linked titles point to my summary notes on the relevant text.

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 - Timaeus
• Plato - Critias
• Plato - Minos
• Plato - Laches
• Plato - Lysis
• Plato - Hippias Major
• Plato - Hippias Minor
• Plato - Symposium
• Plato - Hipparchus
• Plato - Ion
• Plato - Euthydemus
• Plato - Erastai
• 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
• Fowers - Virtue and Psychology
• 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
• Robinson - Aristotle's Psychology
• Roochnik - Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis
• Rorty (ed.) - Essays on Aristotle's Ethics
• Ross - Aristotle
• 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
• Wardy - Chain of Change
• White - Sovereign Virtue
• Wilkes - Real People
• Witt - Ways of Being

Scholarly Papers and Book Chapters

• Achtenberg - Human Being, Beast and God
• Achtenberg - The Role of the Ergon Argument in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
• Ackrill - Aristotle's Distinction Between Energeia and Kinesis
• Ackrill - Aristotle on Eudaimonia
• Abizadeh - The Passions of the Wise
• Annas - Aristotle on Pleasure and Goodness
• 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
• Balme - Aristotle's Biology Was Not Essentialist
• Balme - Aristotle's Use of Division and Differentiae
• Balme - The Place of Biology in Aristotle's Philosophy
• Balme - Teleology and Necessity
• Barnes - Aristotle and the Methods of Ethics
• Biondi - Aristotle's Moral Expert: The Phronimos
• Biss - Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Knowledge
• Bobonich - Aristotle's Ethical Treatises
• Bobzien - Choice and Moral Responsibility
• Bolton - Definition and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics and Generation of Animals
• 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 - Aristotle and Contemporary Ethics
• Broadie - Aristotelian Piety
• Broadie - Interpreting Aristotle's Directions
• Broadie - The Problem of Practical Intellect in Aristotle's Ethics
• Brown - Why is Aristotle's Virtue of Character a Mean?
• Brown - What Is the 'Mean Relative to Us' in Aristotle's Ethics?
• Burger - Aristotle's "Exclusive" Account of Happiness
• Burnyeat - Aristotle on Learning to be Good
• Burnyeat - Aristotle on Understanding Knowledge
• 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 - Hypothetical Necessity and Natural Teleology
• Cooper - Plato and Aristotle on "Finality" and "(Self-)Sufficiency"
• Corcilius - Aristotle's Definition of Non-Rational Pleasure and Pain and Desire
• Curzer - Aristotle's Bad Advice on Becoming Good
• Curzer - Rules Lurking at the Heart of Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics
• Dahl - Contemplation and Eudaimonia in the Nicomachean 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?
• Fossheim - Justice in the Nicomachean Ethics Book V
• Frede - On Aristotle's Conception of the Soul
• Freeland - Aristotelian Actions
• Freeland - Aristotle on Bodies, Matter, and Potentiality
• 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 - First Principles in Aristotle's Parts of Animals
• 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
• Hutchinson and Johnson - Protreptic Aspects of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
• Inglis - Philosophical Virtue: In Defense of the Grand End
• Irwin - Beauty and Morality in Aristotle
• Irwin - The Metaphysical and Psychological Basis of Aristotle's Ethics
• Irwin - Reason and Responsibility in Aristotle
• 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 - The Eudemian Ethics and the Nicomachean 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 - Being Properly Affected
• Kosman - Understanding, Explanation, and Insight in the Posterior Analytics
• Kosman - What Does the Maker Mind Make?
• Kullmann - Man as a Political Animal in Aristotle
• Lawrence - Acquiring Character: Becoming Grown-Up
• Lear - Aristotle on Moral Virtue and the Fine
• 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
• Lockwood - Competing Ways of Life and Ring Composition
• Lorenz - Aristotle's Analysis for Akratic Action
• 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
• Meyer - Living for the Sake of an Ultimate End
• Miller - Aristotle on Rationality in Action
• Miller - Aristotle's Paradox of Monarchy and the Biographical Tradition
• Miller - Finding Oneself with Friends
• 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
• Moss - Was Aristotle a Humean?
• Natali - The Book on Wisdom
• 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?
• Pearson - Courage and Temperance
• Polansky - Ethics as Practical Science
• Price - Acrasia and Self-Control
• 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
• Roche - Happiness and the External Goods
• Rogers - Aristotle on Loving Another for His Own Sake
• Rogers - Aristotle's Conception of To Kalon
• Roochnik - What is Theoria?
• Rorty - Akrasia and Pleasure
• Rorty - De Anima: Its Agenda and Its Recent Interpreters
• Rorty - The Place of Contemplation in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
• Russell - Phronesis and the Virtues
• 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
• Schofield - Aristotle's Political Ethics
• 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 - Perfecting Pleasures: The Metaphysics of Pleasure in Nicomachean Ethics X
• 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
• Sorabji - Aristotle on the Role of Intellect in Virtue
• 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
• Whiting - The Nicomachean Account of Philia
• Wiggins - Deliberation and Practical Reason
• Wiggins - Weakness of Will, Commensurability, and the Objects of Deliberation and Desire
• Wilkes - Psuche versus the Mind
• Witt - Dialectic, Motion, and Perception
• Wood - Contemplating the Beautiful: The Practical Importance of Theoretical Excellence in Aristotle's Ethics
• Young - Aristotle on Temperance
• Zingano - Aristotle and the Problems of the Method in Ethics

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