{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg022.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg022.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg022.local001","title":"Magna Moralia","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"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":["Franz Susemihl"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis Quae Feruntur Magna Moralia","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1883","volume":null,"series":null,"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":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":[],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/aristotelisquae01susegoog","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. Magna Moralia. ed. Franz Susemihl. Aristotelis Quae Feruntur Magna Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1883. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg022.local001","excerpt":"Ἐπειδὴ προαιρούμεθα λέγειν ὑπὲρ ἠθικῶν, πρῶτον ἄν εἴη 1181a σκεπτέον τίνος ἐστὶ μέρος τὸ ἦθος ὡς μὲν οὖν συντόμως 25 εἰπτεῖν, δόξειεν 〈ἂν〉 οὐκ ἄλλης ἢ τῆς πολιτικῆς εἶναι μέρος. ἔστι γὰρ οὐθὲν ἐν τοῖς πολιτικοῖς δυνατὸν πρᾶξαι ἄνευ τοῦ ποῖόν τινα εἶναι, λέγω δʼ οἷον σπουδαῖον· τὸ δὲ σπουδαῖον εἶναί ἐστι τὸ τὰς ἀρετὰς ἔχειν· δεῖ ἄρα, εἴ τις μέλλει ἐν τοῖς 1181b πολιτικοῖς πρακτικὸς εἶναι, τὸ ἦθος εἶναι σπουδαῖος· μέρος 25 ἐστὶν ἄρα, ὡς ἔοικε, καὶ ἀρχὴ ἡ περὶ τὰ ἤθη πραγματεία τῆς πολιτικῆς, τὸ δʼ ὅλον καὶ τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν δικαίως δοκεῖ ἄν μοι ἔχειν ἡ πραγματεία οὐκ ἠθικὴν ἀλλὰ πολιτικήν. — δεῖ ἄρα, ὡς ἔοικε, πρῶτον ὑπὲρ ἀρετῆς εἰπεῖν, τί τέ 1182a ἐστι καὶ ἐκ τίνων γίνεται. σὐθὲν γὰρ ἴσως ὄφελος εἰδέναι μὲν τὴν ἀρετήν, πῶς δὲ ἔσται καὶ ἐκ τίνων μὴ ἐπαΐειν. οὐ γὰρ μόνον ὅπως εἰδήσομεν τί ἐστι σκοπεῖσθαι δεῖ, ἀλλὰ Lib. l. 1181a, 24—1182a, 7 ═ E. N. 1094 a, 24—b, 10: ad 1182a, 1—7 cf. etiam E.…","divisions":[{"label":"ΗΟΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ Α.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg022.local001/#tlg0086-tlg022-local001-1"},{"label":"Β","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg022.local001/#tlg0086-tlg022-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg022.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg022.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg022/local001.json.gz"}}