A treatise on ethics attributed to Aristotle, possibly a student's notes from his lectures. The Magna Moralia covers much of the same ground as the Nicomachean Ethics — virtue, friendship, pleasure, and the good life — in a more condensed and sometimes clearer form.
Start ReadingVirtue and the mean. The first book examines the nature of virtue, the doctrine of the mean, and analyses individual virtues including courage, temperance, justice, and magnanimity.
Continence, pleasure, and friendship. The second book examines self-control and its failure, the nature and types of pleasure, and provides an extended discussion of friendship as essential to the good life.