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For example, the Bekker number denoting the beginning of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is 1094a1, which corresponds to page 1094 of Bekker's edition, first column (column a), line 1. [2] All modern editions or translations of Aristotle intended for scholarly readers use Bekker numbers, in addition to or instead of page numbers.
Bekker number: Work Latin name Metaphysics 980a Metaphysics: Metaphysica: Ethics and politics 1094a Nicomachean Ethics: Ethica Nicomachea: 1181a Great Ethics* Magna Moralia * 1214a Eudemian Ethics: Ethica Eudemia: 1249a [On Virtues and Vices] [De Virtutibus et Vitiis Libellus] 1252a Politics: Politica: 1343a Economics* Oeconomica * Rhetoric and ...
First page of a 1566 edition of the Aristotolic Ethics in Greek and Latin. The Nicomachean Ethics (/ ˌ n aɪ k ɒ m ə ˈ k i ə n, ˌ n ɪ-/; Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. [1]:
Aristotle's ethics, or study of character, ... Bekker number: Work Latin name Ethics and politics 1094a Nicomachean Ethics: Ethica Nicomachea: 1181a Great Ethics*
Situations is the shortest piece traditionally attributed to Aristotle as part of the Corpus Aristotelicum, occupying a single two-column page (973) in Bekker's standard reference edition of Aristotle's complete works. The twelve winds, described in order in the text, are: Boreas (N) Meses (NNE) Caecias (NE) Apeliotes (E) Eurus (SE) Orthonotus ...
August Immanuel Bekker (21 May 1785 – 7 June 1871) ... Bekker numbers have become the standard way of referring to the works of Aristotle and the Corpus Aristotelicum.
The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, [citation needed] his writings are divisible into two groups: the "exoteric" and the "esoteric". [1]
The treatise is near-universally abbreviated "DA", for "De anima", and books and chapters generally referred to by Roman and Arabic numerals, respectively, along with corresponding Bekker numbers. (Thus, "DA I.1, 402a1" means "De anima, book I, chapter 1, Bekker page 402, Bekker column a [the column on the left side of the page], line number 1.)