{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0615.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0615.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0615.tlg001.local001","title":"In Ethica Nicomachea paraphrasis","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aspasius","authorityName":"ASPASIUS Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0615-aspasius/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0615-aspasius/","editors":["Gustav Heylbut"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"In Ethica Nicomachea quae supersunt commentaria","edition":null,"publisher":"Reimer","place":"Berlin","date":"1889","volume":"19.1","series":"Commentaria in Aristotelem graeca","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":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","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":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/commentariaina19pt12akaduoft","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aspasius. In Ethica Nicomachea paraphrasis. ed. Gustav Heylbut. In Ethica Nicomachea quae supersunt commentaria, Berlin, Reimer, 1889. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0615.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ἡ περὶ τὰ ἤθη πραγματεία καὶ μάλιστα ἡ πολιτικὴ ἠθικὴ] κατὰ μὲν τὸ ἀναγκαῖον τῆς θεωρητικῆς φιλοσοφίας, κατὰ δὲ τὸ τίμιον ὑστέρα. ᾗ μὲν γὰρ ἀδύνατον καλῶς ζῆν μὴ σώφρονας ὄντας καὶ δικαίους καὶ ὅλως τὸ ἦθος κεκοσμημένους καὶ εἰς συμμετρίαν τινὰ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς πάθη καταστήσαντας, ταύτῃ δόξειεν εἶναι ἀναγκαία ἡ πολιτικὴ καὶ ἠθικὴ καὶ τοῦτο προτέρα οὐδὲν γὰρ πλέον ἀνύει οὐδ’ εἴ τις πᾶσαν γνῶσιν καὶ θεωρίαν κτήσαιτο μὴ πεπαιδευμένος τὸ ἦθος), ᾗ δὲ περὶ τῶν τιμιωτάτων καὶ θειοτάτων ἡ σοφία πραγματεύεται καὶ θεωρεῖ τὰ τῆς φύσεως ἔργα καὶ ἔτι ἄλλα πολὺ ἀμείνω καὶ κρείττω τῶν ἐκ φύσεως συνεστώτων, ὧν ἐστιν ἡ πρώτη φιλοσοφία θεωρητική, ταύτῃ προτέρα καὶ τιμιωτέρα λέγοιτ’ ἄν ἡ θεωρητική· ὡς γὰρ τὰ ὑποκείμενα ἔχει πρὸς ἄλληλα, οὕτως καὶ αἱ περὶ αὐτὰ ἐπιστῆμαι· ἔστι δὲ τιμιώτερα καὶ κρείττω περὶ ἃ ἡ σοφία τῶν ὑπὸ τὴν πολιτικὴν καὶ ἠθικήν, ὥστε πολλῷ ἀν’ εἴη τιμιωτέρα τούτων ἡ σόφ’ ία. καὶ γὰρ εἰ μὲν…","divisions":[{"label":"ASPASII IN ETHICA NICOMACHEA COMMENTARIA","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0615.tlg001.local001/#tlg0615-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"ΕΙΣ ΤΟ Β ΤΩΝ ΗΘΙΚΩΝ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0615.tlg001.local001/#tlg0615-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"ΕΙΣ ΤΟ (??) ΤΩΝ ΗΘΙΚΩΝ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0615.tlg001.local001/#tlg0615-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"ΑΣΠΑΣΙΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΥ ΥΠΟΜΝΗΜΑ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0615.tlg001.local001/#tlg0615-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"ΑΣΠΑΣΙΟΥ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ Η ΤΩΝ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΗΘΙΚΩΝ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0615.tlg001.local001/#tlg0615-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"ΑΣΠΑΣΙΟΥ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ Θ(??) ΥΩΝ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΗΘΙΚΩΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0615.tlg001.local001/#tlg0615-tlg001-local001-6"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0615.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0615.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0615/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}