Michael of Ephesus on Contemplation, Pleasure and Happiness: A Byzantine Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics X.

该项目的目标是对亚里士多德的尼科马基伦理学第十卷幸存下来的最早的注释进行首次全面检查，该注释由以弗所的迈克尔在12世纪用希腊语撰写，并首次将该注释翻译成现代语言(英语)。这次考试的动机既有系统性的问题，也有历史性的问题。关于前者，我们将调查迈克尔对尼科马基伦理学第十册中出现的一些解释性和哲学问题的见解和回应，特别是围绕快乐、沉思和幸福生活的概念的问题，所有这些都仍然是当前亚里士多德伦理学学术的核心。重点将放在迈克尔如何理解智力的本质及其活动、沉思，以及这种活动与伦理和政治美德和幸福的关系。关于该项目的历史方面，我们将彻底重新评估新柏拉图哲学对他对尼科马基伦理学的理解所产生的影响。虽然最近有一些学术著作成功地表明，新柏拉图主义对迈克尔的影响，特别是对他的伦理理论的影响比之前认为的更大，但这种影响的全面程度尚未确定。就普罗提诺的著作对迈克尔的影响而言，更是如此。因为尽管普罗提诺是迈克尔唯一提到名字的新柏拉图哲学家，但以前的研究未能正确地确定《启示录》中的参照点，从而阻碍了他们正确地评估普洛蒂诺对迈克尔斯思想的直接影响的程度。这个项目的一个中心关注的是评估他对快乐、沉思和幸福的评论的内在一致性，从而建立一个关于他的伦理学领域的全面的描述。英译本，伴随着冗长的引言和注释，已经被委托出现在非常有声望的古代亚里士多德评论员系列(理查德·索拉布吉，编辑)中。

The goal of this project is to offer the first comprehensive examination of the earliest surviving commentary on Book X of the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, composed by Michael of Ephesus in Greek in the 12th century, as well as to provide the first-ever translation of this commentary into a modern language (English). This examination is motivated by questions of both a systematic and a historical nature. Regarding the former, we shall investigate the insights and responses Michael offers to a number of interpretative and philosophical problems that emerge in the course of Nicomachean Ethics Book X, notably the issues surrounding the concepts of pleasure, contemplation, and the happy life, all of which remain at the core of current scholarship on Aristotelian ethics. A particular emphasis will be placed on how Michael understands the nature of the intellect and its activity, contemplation, and the relationship of this activity to ethical and political virtues and happiness. Regarding the historical side of the project, we shall be thoroughly reevaluating the impact that Neoplatonic philosophy has had on his understanding of the Nicomachean Ethics. While there has been some recent scholarly work that has managed to show that there is a greater amount of Neoplatonic influence on Michael and in particular on his ethical theory than was previously thought, the full extent of this influence has yet to be established. This is especially true with respect to the impact that the writings of Plotinus had on Michael. For although Plotinus is the only Neoplatonic philosopher that Michael refers to by name, previous studies have failed to identify the point of reference in the Enneads correctly, thus preventing them from properly evaluating the extent of direct Plotinian influence on Michaels thought. A central concern of this project is to evaluate the internal coherence of his comments on pleasure, contemplation and happiness, and so to establish a comprehensive account of this domain of his ethics. The English translation, accompanied by a lengthy introduction and notes, has already been commissioned to appear in the very prestigious Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series (Richard Sorabji, editor).