Acknowledgments Introduction The Socratic Question of the Ethics 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 Human Ergon Happiness in a Complete Life The Nonrational Psyche 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 as Telos of 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 the Ethics The Rational Psyche 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.