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In this volume, Sorin Sabou explores the dependency of happiness on external goods in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Sabou defends the following thesis: the dependency of happiness on external goods, in EN, is interpreted in the light of its political self-sufficiency, and in the light of our political humanity; this dependency is of three kinds: (1) enhancing-instrumental, (2) constitutive, and (3) subsistent.

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Remarkable through erudition, through its detailed analyses and fresh approaches, Sabou's book offers a new reading of Aristotle's inquiry on happiness . . . It's a book devoted to critically-minded students trained to penetrate the endless strata of surprising assumptions. --Valentin Muresan, University of Bucharest, Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics Dr. Sabou's Happiness and External Goods in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a very close and pleasingly technical study of Aristotle's anthropology. The inclusion of in-text references to Aristotle's work and footnotes referencing the secondary material make this a very useful piece of scholarship. In our present contentious political climate, a close reading of and meditation on the implications of Aristotle's insight that humans are essentially social beings is beneficial. Sabou's study is a very timely contribution. --Michael S. Jones, Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Liberty University

Remarkable through erudition, through its detailed analyses and fresh approaches, Sabou's book offers a new reading of Aristotle's inquiry on happiness . . . It's a book devoted to critically-minded students trained to penetrate the endless strata of surprising assumptions. --Valentin Muresan, University of Bucharest, Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics Dr. Sabou's Happiness and External Goods in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a very close and pleasingly technical study of Aristotle's anthropology. The inclusion of in-text references to Aristotle's work and footnotes referencing the secondary material make this a very useful piece of scholarship. In our present contentious political climate, a close reading of and meditation on the implications of Aristotle's insight that humans are essentially social beings is beneficial. Sabou's study is a very timely contribution. --Michael S. Jones, Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Liberty University

"""""Remarkable through erudition, through its detailed analyses and fresh approaches, Sabou's book offers a new reading of Aristotle's inquiry on happiness . . . It's a book devoted to critically-minded students trained to penetrate the endless strata of surprising assumptions."""" --Valentin Muresan, University of Bucharest, Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics """"Dr. Sabou's Happiness and External Goods in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a very close and pleasingly technical study of Aristotle's anthropology. The inclusion of in-text references to Aristotle's work and footnotes referencing the secondary material make this a very useful piece of scholarship. In our present contentious political climate, a close reading of and meditation on the implications of Aristotle's insight that humans are essentially social beings is beneficial. Sabou's study is a very timely contribution."""" --Michael S. Jones, Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Liberty University"

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Sorin Sabou is Prorector of Baptist Theological Institute of Bucharest, and Instructor (online) at Liberty University. He is the author of Happiness as Actuality in Nicomachean Ethics (2018).

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