The most important ethical work of Aristotle. Books V-VIII: The concept of justice. The intellectual virtues. Practical wisdom. Critique of Plato's view on practical wisdom. The relationship between will and moral virtues. The pathology of will.

Aristotle, the son of the physician Nicomachus, was born in Stagira in 384 BC. Information about the early years of his life is scarce. At the age of seventeen, he went to Athens to study at the Platonic Academy. There he stayed for twenty years, from 367 to 348 BC, until Plato died. Then Aristotle left for Assos in Troad, and after a three-year stay there, he went to Lesbos and then to Macedonia, where he took on the education of the royal child Alexander.

When his student ascended the throne, Aristotle settled in Athens and founded his school, the Lyceum. After the death of Alexander (323 BC), the philosopher's stay in Athens became difficult. He was forced to seek refuge in Chalcis, his mother's homeland, where he died in 322.

A universal spirit, Aristotle created an extensive and valuable philosophical and scientific body of work. Epistemology, logic, theology, physics, biology, psychology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics are the main fields of knowledge he researched and studied.

The Alexandrian Hermippus estimated Aristotle's works at 400. To this day, lists have survived that include 143 titles of his works. Diogenes Laertius estimated the number of verses in Aristotle's writings at 440,000. The influence of his work on the shaping of global thought has been strong for centuries, and it remains so.

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