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Ask HN: What's a favored translation these days?
by analog31 2y ago
Ask HN: What's a favored translation these days?
- seeknotfind 2y agoPenguin Classics edition of Nichomachean Ethics has a great introduction and is very readable.
- asimpletune 2y agoThe best comes from Hackett publishing.
- cybersoyuz 2y agoA recent translation by Bartlett and Collins has extensive notes and reflects up-to-date scholarship. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo11393496.html https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo113934...
- squirrelChrist 2y agoUnless you know enough Greek to get into serious depth, Oxford's Complete Works of Aristotle, edited by Barnes, is the standard thing scholars use.
- cafard 2y agoThis fall, I read a (fairly new) translation of The Eudemian Ethics by Anthony Kenny, in the Oxford World Classics series. It is handy (fits in a coat pocket, depending on your coat), with a useful introduction and notes.
- zvr 2y agoI know you've only asked for a translation, but if you are interested in more, there is an edition by Oxford University Press (April 11, 2002), 480 pages, ISBN 978-0198752714. An English translation by Christopher Rowe that strives to be meticulously accurate yet also accessible. The translation is accompanied by Sarah Broadie's detailed line-by-line commentary. https://a.co/d/4bOuqI5 https://a.co/d/4bOuqI5 Copying from an online review (at random): If you want only a translation, and quality doesn't matter much, this translation will probably be too expensive for you. However, if you want an extensive introduction (a historical one from pg. 3-7, a philosophical one from pg. 9-91), outlines on each book and commentary (pg. 261-452), a list of Greek vocabulary (pg. 453-5), a bibliography, and index, then this is your ticket.