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Jan 1, 2002 · Joe Sachs' translations of Aristotle and Plato are phenomenally good, but it was his translation of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics that solidified my studies as a PhD student. Although I had read all of Aristotle's works (in translation) while in college, I had thought to focus on Plato for my dissertation, yet I could not summon the ...
Philosophers of an analytic disposition have fruitful resources in the excellent editions by Terence Irwin 1 and by Sarah Broadie and Christopher Rowe, 2 while those with more continental or Straussian sympathies may turn to the translations of Joe Sachs 3 or of Robert Bartlett and Susan Collins. 4 Numerous other versions likewise remain ...
Jun 27, 2022 · Joe Sachs' translations of Aristotle and Plato are phenomenally good, but it was his translation of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics that solidified my studies as a PhD student. Although I had read all of Aristotle's works (in translation) while in college, I had thought to focus on Plato for my dissertation, yet I could not summon the ...
Joe Sachs taught for thirty years at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has translated Aristotle's Physics , Metaphysics , On the Soul , and, for the Focus Philosophical Library, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics , Plato's Theaetetus , Republic , and Gorgias , a collection of Plato's dialogues entitled Socrates and the ...
Aristotle, Joe Sachs. Focus Pub./R. Pullins, 2002 - Drama - 214 pages. Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a lucid and useful translation of one of Aristotle's major works for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as well as for the general reader interested in the major works of western civilization.
The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum.
Joe Sachs taught for thirty years at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. In addition to Nicomachean Ethics, he has translated Aristotle's Physics, Metaphysics, and On the Soul and, for the Focus Philosophical Library, Aristotle's Poetics, and Plato's Theaetetus and Republic.
