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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (works not included). Pages: 48. Chapters: Nicomachean Ethics, Physics, Rhetoric, Metaphysics, Prior Analytics, Poetics, Corpus Aristotelicum, On the Soul, Politics, Categories, Organon, Topics, De Interpretatione, Constitution of the Athenians, On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration, Posterior Analytics, Meteorology, Physiognomonics, On Breath, Protrepticus, Eudemian Ethics, On the Heavens, Parva Naturalia, Economics, On Generation and Corruption, Magna Moralia, Sense and Sensibilia, Rhetoric to Alexander, History of Animals, On Marvellous Things Heard, Sophistical Refutations, On Divination in Sleep, Parts of Animals, On Length and Shortness of Life, On Plants, Mechanics, On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias, Progression of Animals, On Things Heard, The Situations and Names of Winds, On Virtues and Vices, Generation of Animals, Problems, On Colors, On Dreams, On Sleep, On Indivisible Lines, On Memory, Movement of Animals, On the Universe. Excerpt: The Nicomachean Ethics (UK: , US: ) is the name normally given to Aristotle's best known work on ethics. The English version of the title derives from Greek, transliterated Ethika Nikomacheia which is sometimes also given in the genitive form as, Ethik n Nikomachei n. The Latin, which is also commonly used, is thica Nicomach a. 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, which were either edited by or dedicated to Aristotle's son, Nicomachus. The theme of the work is the Socratic question which had previously been explored in Plato's works, of how men should best live. In his Metaphysics, Aristotle described how Socrates turned philosophy to human questions, whereas Pre-Socratic ph...