Acknowledgments Introduction     The Socratic Question of theEthics       Part I    THE HUMAN GOOD   1 The Final End and the Way to It         From the Good to the Human Good         Opinions about Happiness         The Human Good and the HumanErgon    Happiness in a Complete Life        The NonrationalPsyche       Part II     THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE JUST 2 Excellence of Character        A Non-Socratic Account        Habituation        Ethical Virtue and the Measure of the Mean        Responsibility and Nature       3 Virtues and Vices        The Beautiful asTelosof the Virtues        Justice in the City and Justice in the Soul      Part III     RETURN TO THE GOOD   4 Excellence of Thought        The Pivot of the Argument of theEthics       The RationalPsyche       Intellectual Virtues        Phronesis,Sophia, and the Claim to Happiness       5 Pleasure and the Discovery of Nature        A New Beginning: From the Bestial to the Divine        The Faction of Passion and Reason        Pleasure by Nature and the Good       6 Friendship and the Discovery of the Self        Rational and Political Nature        Perfect Friendship and Other Species        Justice in Friendship        The Friend as an Other Self        Friendship, Eros, and Philosophy       7 Happiness        Pleasure Revisited        The Theoretical Life        The Legislative Art        A Socratic Answer to a Socratic Question?       Appendix 1    Socrates, Plato, Philosophy       Appendix 2   Virtues and Vices       Appendix 3   Categories of Justice       Appendix 4    Classifications of Pleasure       Notes     Bibliography     Index.