Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. The Nicomachean Ethics Translated by DAVID ROSS Revised with an Introduction and Notes by LESLEY BROWN Each edition includes perceptive commentary and essential background information to meet the changing needs of readers. Today the series is recognized for its fine scholarship and reliability in texts that span world literature, drama and poetry, religion, philosophy, and politics.
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