{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg010.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg010.local001","title":"Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια","titleGreek":"Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια","alternateTitles":["Nicomachean Ethics","Éthique à Nicomaque","Ethique à Nicomaque","Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια"],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["Ingram Bywater"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1894","volume":null,"series":"Oxford Classical Texts","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/aristotelis00aristuoft/page/n11/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια. ed. Ingram Bywater. Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1894. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg010.local001","excerpt":"πᾶσα τέχνη καὶ πᾶσα μέθοδος, ὁμοίως δὲ πρᾶξίς τε καὶ προαίρεσις, ἀγαθοῦ τινὸς ἐφίεσθαι δοκεῖ· διὸ καλῶς ἀπεφήναντο τἀγαθόν, οὗ πάντʼ ἐφίεται. διαφορὰ δέ τις φαίνεται τῶν τελῶν· τὰ μὲν γάρ εἰσιν ἐνέργειαι, τὰ δὲ παρʼ αὐτὰς ἔργα τινά. ὧν δʼ εἰσὶ τέλη τινὰ παρὰ τὰς πράξεις, ἐν τούτοις βελτίω πέφυκε τῶν ἐνεργειῶν τὰ ἔργα. πολλῶν δὲ πράξεων οὐσῶν καὶ τεχνῶν καὶ ἐπιστημῶν πολλὰ γίνεται καὶ τὰ τέλη· ἰατρικῆς μὲν γὰρ ὑγίεια, ναυπηγικῆς δὲ πλοῖον, στρατηγικῆς δὲ νίκη, οἰκονομικῆς δὲ πλοῦτος. ὅσαι δʼ εἰσὶ τῶν τοιούτων ὑπὸ μίαν τινὰ δύναμιν, καθάπερ ὑπὸ τὴν ἱππικὴν χαλινοποιικὴ καὶ ὅσαι ἄλλαι τῶν ἱππικῶν ὀργάνων εἰσίν, αὕτη δὲ καὶ πᾶσα πολεμικὴ πρᾶξις ὑπὸ τὴν στρατηγικήν, κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν δὴ τρόπον ἄλλαι ὑφʼ ἑτέρας· ἐν ἁπάσαις δὲ τὰ τῶν ἀρχιτεκτονικῶν τέλη πάντων ἐστὶν αἱρετώτερα τῶν ὑπʼ αὐτά· τούτων γὰρ χάριν κἀκεῖνα διώκεται. διαφέρει δʼ οὐδὲν τὰς ἐνεργείας αὐτὰς εἶναι τὰ τέλη τῶν πράξεων ἢ παρὰ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/1-book-1/"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/2-book-2/"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/3-book-3/"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/4-book-4/"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/5-book-5/"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/6-book-6/"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/7-book-7/"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/8-book-8/"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/9-book-9/"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/10-book-10/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg010.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg010/local001.json.gz"}}