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The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics, the science of the good for human life, which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. Based on lectures Aristotle gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, Nicomachean Ethics has profoundly influenced the whole course of subsequent philosophical endeavour. It consists of ten books or scrolls, understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum and It offers seminal, practically oriented discussions of many central ethical issues, including the role of luck in human well-being, moral education, responsibility, courage, justice, moral weakness, friendship and pleasure, with an emphasis on the exercise of virtue as the key to human happiness.

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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. For twenty years he studied at Athens at the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and some time later became tutor to Alexander the Great. On Alexander's succession to the throne of Macedonia in 336, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum. After Alexander's death he was driven out of Athens and fled to Chalcis in Euboea where he died in 322. His writings profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy. From his lessons, the West acquired its scholarly vocabulary, just as issues and strategies for request. Accordingly, his way of thinking has applied an exceptional effect on pretty much every type of information in the West and it keeps on being a subject of contemporary philosophical conversation.

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