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Excerpt from The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle: Consisting of a Translation of the Nicomachean Ethics, and of the Paraphrase Attributed to Andronicus of Rhodes, With an Introductory Analysis of Each Book
The problem is how to convey, in readable English, a philosophical styl'e, full of technical terms for Which we have no exact representatives. Circumlocution, or paraphrase, becomes necessary; the question is, how to use this with the greatest tact, so as, while conveying Aristotle's exact meaning, to retain something of his manner. (sir Alexander Grant, art. Aristotle in the 'encyclopaedia Britannica,' 9th edition, vol. Ii. P.
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