La felicità aristotelica tra la morte e la sorte. Note di commento ad Aristotele Etica Nicomachea I 11

Abstract

The following essay focuses on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics I 11; this paper’s aim is to provide a running commentary of this chapter, in which Aristotle deals with important subjects of his ethics, in particular: (1) the problematic relation between happiness, fortune, external goods, and the death; (2) the matter of the possibility (generally held by common and traditional beliefs) of a sort of “communication” between living being’s successes or misfortunes and dead person’s joy or affliction.

English title: Aristotelian happiness between death and fate. Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics I 11