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The Functions of the Nicomachean Ethics

This chapter examines Aristotle’s purposes in writing the NE. His main goal is to clarify the nature of the human good (eudaimonia), enabling the statesman to understand the mark at which he should be aiming. But I argue that he is also concerned with something more protreptic: reinforcing the moral intuitions of his audience. This is not to say he is interested in converting an actual sceptic, but he does, like Plato in the Republic, combat the sceptical position in case his audience finds it appealing enough to relax their commitment to the intuitions imbued by their upbringing. I find evidence of moral reinforcement in X 1–6 and IX 4, which provide Platonically inspired arguments for the virtuous life.