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Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

1 review
Kenneth A. Telford

Inst of Global Cultural Stds, 1999

Telford's commentary provides insight into ancient thought.
Ken Telford's translations and commentaries of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics are the most significant reassessment of ancient thought since the Middle Ages first discovered the incredible wonder of Greek civilization. The discoveries made by Telford have been so basic and so important as to drastically change the significance of almost everything the Greeks said. These disocveries were made ...

Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics: EÌthikoÌn, or, of matters concerning habituability (Studies on ancient Greek ...

5 reviews
Aristotle, Kenneth A. Telford

Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, 1999

Quite helpful for World Leaders
One is continually astounded by the prescience of thought displayed by the ancient Greek philosophers, and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is indeed an exemplary representative of the field. As president of the world's only superpower, one must continually balance many important concerns -- not the least of which is ensuring that one operates from the highest of ethical principles, and ...

Aristotle's Physics
Kenneth A. Telford

Institute of Global Cultural Studies, 1999

232 pages.

Aristotle's Poetics: Translation and Analysis

2 reviews
Kenneth A. Telford

Univ Pr of Amer, 1985

Tragedy Teaches Us Something About Life
I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Poetry appeals to human passions and emotions. Powerful beautiful language and metaphor really appeal to emotion. This idea really disturbed Plato, who takes on Homer in the Republic. Plato thought that early Greek poetry portrays a dark world; humans are checked by negative limits like death. Tragedy has in it a character of high ...