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Like Doctor Who, Aristotle Needs a Companion

Like Doctor Who, Aristotle Needs a Companion Polansky, Ronald (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014). xii, 474 p. $36.99 (pb). isbn 9780521122733. The Companion consists of 19 articles plus an awesomely detailed, ‘Topical Bibliography to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics ’ compiled by Thornton Lockwood. All 19 articles are solid pieces of scholarship, yet accessible – indeed well-written and useful – to non-scholars. Quite an achievement! The first 16 articles generally follow the order of the ne . The Companion’s last 3 articles discuss the relationship between the ne and the Politics , the Protrepticus , and the ee , respectively. Since gender distribution is a current issue in the profession of philosophy, I’ll mention that seven of the twenty pieces (35%) are authored by women. Polanski remarks that the length of ne v indicates ‘the significance and difficulty’ of the virtue of justice (p. 151). Perhaps Polanski’s remark generalizes. If the length of authors’ and editors’ treatment of a subject is a rough indication of their view of its difficulty and significance, then Polanski’s view of what is difficult and significant in the ne mostly, though not completely corresponds to Aristotle’s view. The differences are that the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought Brill

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Polansky, Ronald (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014). xii, 474 p. $36.99 (pb). isbn 9780521122733. The Companion consists of 19 articles plus an awesomely detailed, ‘Topical Bibliography to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics ’ compiled by Thornton Lockwood. All 19 articles are solid pieces of scholarship, yet accessible – indeed well-written and useful – to non-scholars. Quite an achievement! The first 16 articles generally follow the order of the ne . The Companion’s last 3 articles discuss the relationship between the ne and the Politics , the Protrepticus , and the ee , respectively. Since gender distribution is a current issue in the profession of philosophy, I’ll mention that seven of the twenty pieces (35%) are authored by women. Polanski remarks that the length of ne v indicates ‘the significance and difficulty’ of the virtue of justice (p. 151). Perhaps Polanski’s remark generalizes. If the length of authors’ and editors’ treatment of a subject is a rough indication of their view of its difficulty and significance, then Polanski’s view of what is difficult and significant in the ne mostly, though not completely corresponds to Aristotle’s view. The differences are that the

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