COMMENTARY ON THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS

by
Thomas Aquinas
translated by
C. I. Litzinger, O.P.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1964, 2 volumes

OUTLINE INDEX OF THE TEN BOOKS OF THE ETHICS (nos. 1-2180)

BOOK I: THE GOOD FOR MAN Aristotle
Summary: The difference of ends.
Happiness, the end and supreme good of the happy person.
The two parts of the soul.
Division of virtue.
BOOK II: MORAL VIRTUE IN GENERAL
Summary Virtue in general.
Its essence.
Mean between extremes.
Opposition between vice and virtue.
Directions for acquiring the mean.
BOOK III: THE VOLUNTARY, FORTITUDE AND TEMPERANCE
Summary The voluntary and the involuntary.
Things consequent to the voluntary.
Fortitude and temperance.
Their species and extremes.
Commendable in youths. Similar to continence.
BOOK V: JUSTICE
Summary Justice and injustice.
Their species.
Equity.
Justice in the metaphorical sense.
BOOK VI: INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES
Summary Principles of operation.
Intellectual habits: science, art, understanding, wisdom, and prudence.
Connection between prudence and other virtues.
BOOK VII: CONTINENCE AND INCONTINENCE
Summary Continence and attitudes opposed to continence.
The continent and the incontinent man.
Pleasure and its species. Pain.
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BOOK VIII: FRIENDSHIP
Summary Friendship and its various kinds.
Diverse matters concerning friends and friendship.
BOOK IX: PROPERTIES OF FRIENDSHIP
Summary Preservation of friendship.
The works of friendship: goodwill, concord, beneficence, love of self.
Friends of a happy man; the number of friends.
Need for friends.
BOOK X: PLEASURE. HAPPINESS
Summary Pleasure; its kinds.
Happiness, contemplative and active.
Preparation for and connection with the treatise on the state.

This book is a commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Nicomachean (Aristotle's) Ethnics

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Book I (1-244): THE GOOD FOR MAN 1.   Happiness (43-223)

Introduction: purpose, method and qualifications of the student 2.  According to the opinion of others (43-102)
of this science (1-42) 2.  According to his own opinion (103-223)
1.   The virtues (224-1952) Book VI (1109-1291): INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES
2.  Prenotes (114-244) 3.   Intellectual (1109-1291)
Book II (245-381): MORAL VIRTUE IN GENERAL 4.   Prenotes (1109-1140)
2.  The virtues themselves (245-1291) 4.   The virtues themselves (1141-1291)
3.   Moral (245-1108) 5.   Exposition of the teaching (1141-1256)
Book III (382-648): THE VOLUNTARY, FORTITUDE 6.   The principal virtues (1141-1216)
AND TEMPERANCE 7.    Perfecting the understanding of conclusions (1141-1174)
4.   In general (245-527) 8.   Science (1141-1149)
4.   Specifically (528-1108) 8.   Art (1150-1160)
5.   Those concerned with the passions (528-884) 8.   Prudence (1161-1174)
6.   Principal ones (528-648) 7.    Perfecting the under standing of first principles (1175-
7.    Fortitude (528-594) 1183)
7.    Temperance (595-648) 8.   Understanding (1175-1179)
Book IV (649-884): OTHER MORAL VIRTUES 8.   Wisdom (1180-1183)
6.   Secondary ones (649-884) 7.    The more excellent virtue (1184-1216)
7.    Which are virtues (649-866) 6.   Virtues annexed to prudence (1217-1244)
8.   Regarding external things (649-734) 7.    In themselves (1217-1244)
9.   Riches 8.   Eubulia (1217-1234)
10. Liberality (649-706) 8.   Synesis (1235-1242)
10. Magnificence (707-734) 8.   Gnome (1243-1244)
9.   Honors (535-799) 7.    Relatively (1245-1256)
10. Magnanimity (735-791) 5.   Solution of doubts (1257-1291)
10. An unnamed virtue (792-799) Book VII (1292-1537): CONTINENCE AND
9.   Meekness (800-815) INCONTINENCE
8.   Regarding human acts (816-866) 2.  What follows and accompanies the virtues (1292-1952)
9.   Serious actions (816-849) 3.   Continence (1292-1537)
9.   Humorous actions (850-866) 4.   Continence and incontinence (1192-1468)
7.    Which are passions–shamefacedness (867-884) 4.   Pleasure and sadness (1469-1537)
Book V (885-1108): JUSTICE Book VIII (1538-1756): FRIENDSHIP
5.   Those concerned with external operations i.e., justice (885- 3.   Friendship (1538-1952)
1108) 4.   Its nature (1538-1561)
6.   Properly (885-1090) 4.   Its kinds (1562-1756)
7.    Justice (885-1077) Book IX (1757-1952): PROPERTIES OF FRIENDSHIP
8.   Legal justice (885-926) 4.   Its properties (1757-1952)
8.   Partic. justice (927-1077) Book X (1953-2180): PLEASURE. HAPPINESS
9.   Absolutely (927-999) 1.   The end of virtue (1953-2180)
9.   Relatively (1000-1077) 2.  In regard to man in himself (1953-2136)
7.    Epikeia (1078-1090) 3.   Pleasure (1933-2136)
8.   Its object (1078-1088) 3.   Happiness (2065-2136)
8.   Its subject (1089) 4.   In itself (2065-2123)
8.   Its habit (1090) 4.   Relative to externals (1226-2136)
6.   Metaphorically (1091-1108) 2.  In regard to the whole state: treatment of positive law
(2137-2180)